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.

For most locations along the Gulf Coast, it has been more than 20-30 years since 2″+ of snowfall has fallen. After Tuesday, most of these locations set records in the snowfall department.