A rare winter storm is bringing snow and freezing rain to parts of the US Deep South, closing highways and airports and prompting the first blizzard warning in southwest Louisiana.
The video shows nuns and a priest enjoying a snowball fight in Matairie, Louisiana, while a skier is dragged down the street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Four people are believed to have died from exposure to the cold so far – two cases are being investigated by authorities in Austin, Texas as cold-related, while two deaths from hypothermia have been reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.
The extreme weather is part of a bitterly cold air mass that has descended on the southern and eastern US.
