Interstate 10 reopened to westbound traffic from I-49 in Lafayette to the Texas border, the Department of Transportation and Development announced mid-afternoon Wednesday. The update comes after a historic winter storm brought several inches of snow to the gulf coast and shut down most of I-10 between Texas and Mississippi.

Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.

The storm blanketed south Louisiana with 4 to 8 inches of snow, with a few areas experiencing up to 12 inches. Temperatures reached as low as the single digits.

A storm is bringing the first-ever blizzard warning issued for Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles and Lafayette, Louisiana.

The latest on the once-in-a-generation winter system off of the Gulf of Mexico from the southernmost Blizzard Warning ever issued to near-record snowfall.

Some areas of New Orleans and Houston got more than four inches of snow Tuesday morning in a historic winter storm hitting the south.

Westbound I-10 from I-49 to the Texas state line is now open to traffic, after being closed due to hazardous road conditions brought on by Tueaday’s snowstorm.

3-Point Goals_Texas St. 6-11 (Dawson 3-5, Benson 2-2, O'Garro 1-3, Pope 0-1), Louisiana-Lafayette 5-21 (Fields 2-3, Ratliff 1-1, Hardy 1-3, Ky.Davis 1-4, White 0-2, Wright 0-3, Garnett 0-5).

Cook 2-4 1-2 5, El Moutaouakkil 1-8 10-12 12, Garnett 1-8 2-2 4, Hardy 5-11 4-6 15, Ky.Davis 2-6 0-0 5, Wright 2-5 5-6 9, Ratliff 4-6 0-0 9, Fields 2-4 1-2 7, White 2-4 0-0 4, Evans 1-1 2-2 4. Totals 22-57 25-32 74.

Pope 6-11 13-14 25, Turner 0-1 1-2 1, Benson 2-3 3-3 9, Dawson 4-6 2-2 13, O'Garro 4-7 8-10 17, Gumbs 4-5 4-4 12, Green 5-6 2-4 12, Deer 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-39 33-39 89.

The superintendent championed a ‘back to basics’ approach to literacy, and eschewed the ‘shiny things’ that stand in the way of teaching.

As a public utility, LUS’s first responsibility is to the city of Lafayette and its residents, but emergencies like this bring to the forefront a conflict between that responsibility and the sale of water to other municipalities and systems, some of which are mostly reliant on LUS for water.