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Louisiana Blizzard Has Led Snowball Fights And People Skiing On Bourbon Street In Surreal Scenes

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snowball fight during the snow storm in New Orleans

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The state of Louisiana is getting pummeled by snow right now and it’s creating absolutely surreal scenes on Bourbon Street. What started as just a severe Winter Storm Warning has led to an actual blizzard warning while some people are straight-up snow skiing on Bourbon Street.

New Orleans, a city associated with suffocating humidity and the swampiest temperatures imaginable during the Summer currently looks like a Winter Wonderland. The streets are blanketed in snow with drivers staying off the roads.

Bourbon Street has never looked this peaceful in the middle of the day:

For any skeptics out there questioning if this is just a light dusting, it’s not. This video shows the full

This video of the Fox8 New Orleans skiing down Bourbon Street truly captures the moment:

Air boat in the snow? Air boat in the snow. All that’s missing is ‘Free Bird’ playing in the background.

Snow ball fights are breaking out on Bourbon Street. This is wild!

Since this, the snow total in New Orleans has surpassed 4 inches and it’s still climbing:

Meanwhile, all of that snow is headed to Florida… I’m an FSU alum and the city of Tallahassee is bracing for 2.5″ tonight. It’s hard to imagine Tally functioning with any measurable amount of snow on the ground but that will be the reality by early tomorrow morning.

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Cass Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of BroBible and a graduate from Florida State University with nearly two decades of expertise in writing about Professional Sports, Fishing, Outdoors, Memes, Bourbon, Offbeat and Weird News, and as a native Floridian he shares his unique perspective on Florida News. You can reach Cass at cass@brobible.com
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