By Melinda Deslatte and Leah Willingham
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE — Parts of the frigid Deep South where wintry precipitation already had left thousands without power, stranded drivers and interrupted efforts to vaccinate residents against the coronavirus, got still more snow and ice Wednesday.
Travels conditions quickly deteriorated in northern Louisiana as freezing precipitation moving out of frozen Texas coated roads already layered with ice, transportation officials said. More and more homes and businesses lost electricity as storms spread eastward into Mississippi, where sleet and freezing rain were coating the ground and plants.
A winter storm warning and advisories that reached all the way from the Mexican border to the Washington, D.C., area included most of Louisiana and Mississippi; northwestern Alabama; and slivers of northern Georgia and South Carolina. As much as 4 inches of snow and sleet could fall as far east as Alabama, forecasters said.