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.

A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven't seen before.

Residents used to preparing for floods and hurricanes are instead facing freezing temperatures and record snowfall Across the US South, extreme weather usually means boarding up windows against hurricane winds and lining streets with sandbags to hold back floods.

A historic winter storm has blanketed the southern United States with record-breaking snowfall, bringing unexpected chaos to regions like Florida. Dia Riley of Scripps News reports from Tampa on the Morning Rush about the astonishing snow accumulations reaching nearly 10 inches in North Florida,