A powerful and dangerous winter storm sweeping across the South is dumping heavy snow across Houston and other major metropolitan areas along the Interstate 10 corridor, prompting the first-ever Blizzard Warning along portions of the Gulf Coast.

From Houston to Pensacola, nearly 1,000 miles of shoreline along the U.S. Gulf Coast was blanketed in as much as a foot of snow this week. The storm shattered century-old records and left cities like New Orleans,