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-ever blizzard warning for southwest Louisiana.
Four people are believed to have died from exposure to the cold, with two cases being investigated by authorities in Austin, Texas as cold-related, while two deaths from hypothermia were reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.
The extreme weather is part of a very cold air mass that has descended on the southern and eastern United States.
The video shows nuns and a priest playing snowballs in Matera, Louisiana, while a skier drags himself down a street in Charleston, South Carolina.
