The Interstate 10 closure spanned nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) had deployed crews traveling in both directions to treat the interstate's surfaces in an effort to restore normal traffic flow.
After a historic winter storm hit the Interstate 10 corridor on Tuesday, parts of the vital east-west artery remain closed due to icy road conditions in both Louisiana and Florida. In Louisiana, the Department of Transportation and Development has closed Interstate 10 from the small community of Iowa in Calcasieu Parish just
Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.
Truckers who move goods across hundreds of miles of Louisiana highway must make their own calculus in the face of a snowstorm.
A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.
Although the skies were bright blue and temperatures had inched above freezing by Wednesday afternoon, much of Interstate 10 and many other major south Louisiana thoroughfares remained closed ...
More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
A powerful winter storm blankets the Southern US in snow, causing unprecedented disruption in New Orleans, Texas, and beyond. Record snowfall, flight cancellations, and power outages reported.
Interstate 10 will close starting 7 p.m. Eastern time ... The Weather Service said areas across southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle, where the heaviest snow fell ...
At least nine people are believed to have died as a result of the dangerous cold gripping much of the country, as a once-in-a-generation winter storm wreaks havoc on the Gulf Coast — a region wholly unaccustomed to winter weather.
Louisiana state and local officials hope to open to the rest of Interstate 10 Friday evening, days after it was shut down due to accumulating ice following a rare snow storm, the New Orleans ...
Interstate 10, including the highrise, twin spans and bonnet carre spillway in New Orleans metro to slidell are now open, DOTD and NOPD says.