Blizzards bring snow to beaches and ice hockey to roads in US south

Snow and freezing rain hits parts of the deep south, closing highways and airports and prompting a first-ever blizzard warning in southwest Louisiana.

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Four people are thought to have died from cold exposure so far - two cases are being investigated as cold-related by Austin authorities in Texas, while two deaths from hypothermia were reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.

The extreme weather is part of a bitterly cold air mass that has descended on the south and eastern US.

Video shows nuns and a priest enjoying a snowball fight in Matairie, Louisiana, whilst a skier is pulled along a street in Charleston, South Carolina.

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