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?

With a blanket of snow and ice covering the Houston region early Tuesday morning, transportation across the city came to a halt as Houstonians stayed home and off the roads during the winter storm. A snowstorm is still a rare event for Houston,