Road salt improves safety for drivers and pedestrians. However, it can run off roads and driveways when the snow melts or ...

With no plow trucks and no experience clearing this much snow, Baton Rouge city-parish workers had to improvise to clear bridges and keep many of the parish's important roadways open.

"You're on a beach looking at the ocean 24 hours later it's snow covered and a foot of snow in some places," said a plow truck driver from Winterset.