A major winter storm slammed the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, blanketing parts of a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather with record-breaking snowfall.

For the first time in decades, parts of the Gulf Coast are blanketed in snow. The unusual sight has folks in places like Florida out shoveling — or at least trying to.

A brutal winter storm has crippled the southeast and left usually-warm residents under record-high amounts of snow.