A historic snowstorm hit southeast, Louisiana Tuesday, leaving many stuck inside, including a family from Ohio who was traveling on vacation.

Steven Hazell owns a plow truck, he traveled all the way down to New Orleans to help clear streets.

Bobby Fredritz, originally from Carey, says snowfall like what New Orleans experienced on Tuesday is what winter is all about.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented pickup truck into the New Year’s Eve crowd on Bourbon Street, police said, killing more than a dozen people and injuring about 30.

In nearby Baton Rouge, LSU’s fifth-ranked women’s basketball team was unable to fly on Wednesday to Columbia, South Carolina, so the Southeastern Conference chose to postpone the Tigers' game at the No. 2 Gamecocks from Thursday night until Friday evening.

The Ohio State Buckeyes prevailed over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the College Football Playoff championship game in Atlanta to win their first national title since the 2014 season. The supporters of both blue-blooded programs were well represented at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, with a fairly equal split of the 77,660 fans in attendance.

The winner claims the national championship in the first year of the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff and longest college football season ever. Ohio State is trying for its sixth title, and first since its 2014 team won the inaugural CFP. Notre Dame is going for its 12th title, and first since 1988.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The NBA has postponed Wednesday night’s game in New Orleans between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pelicans after a historic winter storm dumped about a foot of snow in the Big Easy. Tuesday’s winter storm made road travel treacherous in a subtropical city with minimal snow-clearing equipment on hand.

“It's not just New Orleans,” Schierbaum added ... which will host Monday's game between the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University. They also said they were prepared to keep ...

Steven Hazell owns a snow plow and decided to make the drive from Ohio to New Orleans to help after the historic snowstorm.

The day has arrived and will be looked back on fondly by either Ohio State or Notre Dame fans forever. The Buckeyes and Fighting Irish meet Monday night in the