Sad news to report out of Houston as a woman and her child are dead due to carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was left running in a garage to help generate heat.
A winter wonderland overcame the surface that plays home to our Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Football team. After finishing off a red-hot, ten-win campaign, the team gets to admire the dreamy landscape that has overtaken their field this Winter.
With icy conditions blanketing Acadiana in a layer of white, many online are sharing their wintery views from different perspectives. You can see aerial drone footage and photos from above the Lafayette here, as they display the rare scenery that has made for quite the photo-op.
Bottom line: don't let the melting snow/ice/slush become a false indication that things are safe. As long as temperatures are near freezing, danger lurks.
While snow pictures have been fun to see all morning, this is the dangerous part that comes with severe winter weather.
Video from Chris Fitzmorris shows electricity surging through power lines around the same time that a transformer in Kenner went down, knocking out power for more than 10,000 people...
This looks like so much fun.
Watch as a dad in Louisiana uses a boiling pot as a "sled" for kids to enjoy the icy conditions after a winter storm swept across the region early Monday morning.
The kids and the parents both seem to really enjoy the experience here and memories were certainly made all across south Louisiana...
The Eunice City Marshal took advantage of icy conditions in the yard and started to ski down his own driveway, but he did not use any traditional ski gear.