CT Hours after the departure of Tuesday morning's winter storm, roads around Houston remain dangerously icy. Houston TranStar, which monitors traffic and road conditions around the city, reported more than 40 instances of ice on roads in the Houston area as of 3:30 p.

A winter storm that rolled through Southeast Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast dumped multiple inches of snow on Tuesday across a region already gripped by freezing temperatures. How much snow did Houston get and how does that compare to the snowfalls in New Orleans and across the deep South and Gulf Coast?

A rare frigid storm is charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast, blanketing New Orleans with snow. (AP Video shot by Gerald Herbert, Stephen Smith, Jack Brook)