People from Texas and Louisiana were surprised Tuesday morning when they woke up to blankets of snow, resulting in road closures, school cancelations and the grounding of all flights from major airports.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

Houston's Bush Intercontinental (IAH) and Hobby Airports (HOU) are set to reopen on Wednesday morning following a historic winter storm that swept through Southeast Texas on Tuesday. In an email to Chron,