A brave 14-year-old saved her family and horse after a hit-and-run crash, but police are still searching for the driver who fled.
The bone-chilling weather will continue through Thursday morning. It's likely temperatures will remain at or below freezing all day Tuesday as snow invades, with Wednesday lows expected to dip into the teens to mid-20s.
Florida late on Wednesday closed a more than 200-mile stretch of Interstate 10 from the Alabama state line to Exit 192, the U.S. 90 junction, in Gadsden County “due to remaining snow, ice, and water on the roadway combined with incoming hard freeze temperatures overnight resulting in icy and dangerous conditions on bridges and roadways.
Properly designed and built ICF storm shelters offer the kind of protection necessary to withstand these extreme conditions”
The National Weather Service placed large parts of South Mississippi under a Winter Storm Watch early Saturday morning, including Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Pearl River counties.
From New Orleans to the northshore to Baton Rouge to Lafayette, snow is looking more and more likely as a winter storm moves through the area. "The ceiling for this event could be something astonishing.