Months after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of North Carolina, thousands of residents remain displaced, with many still living in temporary accommodations.

A major winter storm slammed the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, blanketing parts of a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather with record-breaking snowfall.

On Friday at 3:03 a.m. the NWS Las Vegas NV issued a winter storm watch valid from Sunday 4 a.m. until Tuesday 10 a.m.

On Friday at 3:03 a.m. a winter storm watch was issued by the NWS Las Vegas NV valid from Saturday 10 a.m. until Monday 10 p.m. The watch is for Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County, Owens Valley and White Mountains of Inyo County.

A historic Gulf Coast winter storm brings blizzard conditions, power outages and travel chaos to a region unprepared for snow and ice.

Forecasters said it was too early to tell whether the ice and snow would approach or beat Tallahassee’s all-time snowfall record of 2.8 inches set in 1958.

The National Weather Service issued an updated winter storm warning at 10:38 p.m. EST on Tuesday valid from Wednesday 7 a.m. EST until Thursday 1 a.m. EST for Leelanau, Benzie and Manistee counties.

Myriad winter weather alerts and warnings remained in place across the U.S. on Tuesday as multiple states battled storms.

Snow and ice had ground road travel at a halt in some places, and at least two people died in Texas. Many school districts had closed throughout a region unaccustomed to snow.

The snow storm could hit over a dozen states through Wednesday, including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."