A major winter storm prompts blizzard warnings, dumping heavy snow and sleet in a region where even flurries are a rare sight.

A rare winter storm is bringing snow and freezing rain to parts of the US deep south, closing highways and airports in Texas and prompting a first-ever blizzard warning in southwest Louisiana.

Four people are thought to have died from cold exposure so far - two cases are being investigated as cold-related by Austin authorities in Texas, while two deaths from hypothermia were reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.

Up in the country’s north, parts of New York state are being hit by another storm, blanketed by up to 18 inches of snow.

  • @[email protected]
    34•18 days ago

    THIS IS DIVINE RETRIBUTION FOR ELECTING THE ANTICHRIST!!! REPENT HEATHENS!!!

    idk I don’t speak southern

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall!English
    15•18 days ago

    I’m in the deep south. it was 7 degrees this morning. This is not normal. Last summer was the hottest on record. The 2nd hottest was in 2023. The 3rd hottest, well you get the idea.

    • @[email protected]
      18•18 days ago

      Yes. The infrastructure in the region is not made to handle this kind of weather, because it doesn’t get this kind of weather—at least, not until recently. It’s like if you threw your computer in a bucket of water. It’s not a shitty computer if it breaks, it just isn’t meant to operate under these conditions

      • @[email protected]
        16•18 days ago

        Places that never needed AC are needing AC now.

        Places that new saw snow are going to need more heating, snowplows, and road salt. And stronger AC.

        Things are going to suck. Increasingly.

      • @[email protected]
        11•18 days ago

        The computer may not be shitty, but the government that consistently keeps computers teetering off the edges of desks, perched precariously over buckets of water sure is. These types of “unprecedented” individual events are actually part of a blaring collection of events, which when viewed together comprise a blinking neon trend. To be fair though, the cause of this trend has only very recently been identified in 1896, so politicians haven’t had adequate time to prepare.

    • @[email protected]
      6•18 days ago

      Basically. Texas has shut down a few times before due to a little bit of snow, which people are already not prepared to handle. Apparently, they’re expecting an inch per hour, which is a lot for just about anywhere.

      Driving is unsafe in those conditions when the locals don’t own winter tires, and even places like Quebec can shut down flights during snowstorms that aren’t that bad.