The December 20-21, 2006 Colorado Blizzard struck Colorado and some surrounding areas on December 20-21
Blizzards have happened, but usually once every ten or fifteen years.
Famous storms that were panhandle hooks are the Armistice Day Blizzard of November 11, 1940 and the storm which sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975.
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January 12 – "Schoolhouse Blizzard": Blizzards hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.
The 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash occurred on December 30, 1946 on Thurston Island, Antarctica when a United States Navy PBM Mariner crashed during a blizzard.
Bobby Kotick, once head of Activision, was announced to become President and CEO of Activision Blizzard.
Attacking on the climb, Hampsten overcame a blizzard to take the leader's jersey - although he finished second on the stage to Dutchman Erik Breukink.
A group of gamers reverse engineered the network protocol used by Battle.net and Blizzard games, and released a free (under the GNU GPL) Battle.net emulation package called bnetd.
After seeing thousands of cattle die in a Kansas blizzard in 1886, Charles "Buffalo" Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, Kansas, also worked to cross buffalo and cattle at a ranch near the future Grand Canyon National Park, with the hope the animals could survive the harsh winters.
Entertainment attorney Steven Machat, who was involved in the deal Osbourne signed with Jet Records, said in his 2011 book Gods, Gansters and Honour: A Rock 'n' Roll Odyssey that Osbourne's soon-to-be manager and wife Sharon Arden was not happy with the level of creative input Kerslake, Rhoads and Daisley had in the Blizzard of Ozz album and did not want them to share the credit.
Blizzard's presence on the FIS Alpine World Cup circuit is represented by several racers, including Austrian Reinfried Herbst and Japanese racer Akira Sasaki.
Blizzard appeared at the 41st Annual GLI (Great Lakes Invitational) hockey tournament held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, along with fellow mascots Sparty (Michigan State University) and Joe College (the GLI Tournament).
Following a successful rookie campaign, Blizzard tried to make an NBA roster by participating in two July 2004 NBA Summer Leagues while playing for the Phoenix Suns — the Reebok Rocky Mountain Revue in Salt Lake City, Utah and the Reebok Vegas Summer League in Las Vegas, Nevada.
One of his folk ballads, featured on his Much to Share, Dancing Dakota, and Dakota Breezes CDs, is The Story of Hazel Miner. The folk ballad tells the story of Hazel Miner, a 15-year-old girl who died saving her brother and sister during a March 1920 blizzard in Center, North Dakota.
Richard Schaal portrays Chuckles when he arrives at TV station WJM the morning after a city election, to find the news staff —having lost contact with City Hall during a blizzard— still on the air.
Under owner/head coach Bill Arbogast Blizzard's first season in competition began strongly with back-to-back wins in their first two games, 4−0 over Kansas City Brass and 4−3 over state rivals Boulder Rapids Reserve, with Sean McGinnis and Daniel Wasson finding the net.
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Blizzard entered the PDL as an expansion franchise in 2004 as the third team from the Pikes Peak area to play in the league, following the runs of the Colorado Springs Stampede (1995−2000) and Colorado Springs Ascent (2001).
He played for the Waconia Wildcats from 2008-2011 and for the Minnesota Blizzard in 2011.
In 2012, he was elected to the "Triangle Wall of Fame" by the Triangle Fraternity of Architects and Engineers, together with Michael Morhaime, founder of Blizzard Entertainment and developer of World of Warcraft.
Blizzard's work has garnered widespread media attention from prominent media outlets such as, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and ABC News.
In the Blizzard computer game StarCraft, the Terran dropship unit quotes "In the pipe, five by five" when confirming a move order.
Two of the most successful Blizzard franchises, Warcraft and StarCraft as well as Riot Game's League of Legends, also use a similar fog of war which only reveals terrain features and enemy units through a player's reconnaissance.
Some of their efforts include: pressuring NCSoft to remove Game Guard from the game Aion and discussing with game developer Blizzard the addition of color blind friendly enhancements to the game World of Warcraft.
However, he did have one major miss: in 1993 he predicted an early Spring but Georgia was hit with a blizzard that crippled the Southeast for nearly a week and a half, sometimes called the "Storm of the Century".
The one-act play The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang features a main character named George Spelvin, and the January 27, 1942, episode of Fibber McGee and Molly ("The Blizzard") features a visit by a stranger calling himself George Spelvin (played by Frank Nelson).
In June 2012, Dustin Browder, the director of StarCraft II, stated that Blizzard All-Stars did not have a release date, but that it would definitely be after the release of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.
The January 8–13, 2011 North American Blizzard was a major Mid-Atlantic nor'easter and winter storm, and a New England blizzard.
In 2007, he then met up with some of his fellow Blizzard North friends, "Michio Okamura" and "Eric Sexton", and was asked to be the Director of Technology for their newly formed company U.I. Pacific Games, Inc.
Zak, along with Caesar (a Golden Eagle), and Romulus (a wolf), board his personal plane in Denver for the flight to Burbank, but en route at night over the Utah wastelands they encounter a sudden blizzard.
As the winter arrived, Gulovich and the Americans were caught in a blizzard on Mt. Ďumbier, the highest mountain in the Low Tatra range in central Slovakia.
Mark Grist is a poet and battle rapper based in Peterborough, UK, who rose to prominence when his Don't Flop rap battle against Mancunian MC Blizzard became an internet sensation.
However, challenges faced the Americans stationed there from the outset – on the first night that the Americans spent on the ground, harsh winds destroyed many of the Americans' boats, and on the second night a blizzard reduced the base's line of sight.
It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) for Victor Hayward, a British member of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17), who lost his life in a blizzard on May 8, 1916 on the sea ice in McMurdo Sound.
On the way home, the bus she is travelling on, stops in a motel near Perugia due to a blizzard.
During his tenure at the gaming company Blizzard, the music of the Poxy Boggards was featured in the game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.
The pandaren were originally introduced as an April Fools' joke by Blizzard's art director Samwise Didier as a playable race in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne; in the "bonus" campaign centered around the Horde, the pandaren brewmaster Chen Stormstout is a supporting character, marking the first appearance of the race in Warcraft.
The song refers to the band being stuck in a harsh winter blizzard after a show in Boulder, Colorado at a bar called Tulagi's (now closed).
Named "Cerro Rojas" by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950–51, after Sargento Angel Gustavo Rojas, who disappeared in a blizzard while returning from hydrographic work at Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island, September 1, 1949.
Samwise Didier, an artist and Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard was recently seen performing in the BBC drama The White Queen (TV series) as a lady in waiting to Lady Margaret Beaufort played by Amanda Hale.
cn Tanya Donelly contributed a guest vocal to the album, and it won several Motif Magazine awards in 2007.cn The Blizzard of 78 have played with, or opened for, Coldplay, Alex Chilton, Ronnie Spector, Snow Patrol, Jim Carroll, Tanya Donelly, Guster, Remy Zero and Throwing Muses.
He elaborates with a poem set in a Dickensian version of Queens, where he was caught in a blizzard, walked a few blocks to an ugly woman's apartment, and feigned sleep to avoid sex.
Undead Labs is a Seattle, Washington based game development studio, which was founded in 2009 by Jeff Strain a former Blizzard employee and one of the co-founders of ArenaNet.
Original graphics were created by Anthony Rosbottom (a.k.a. Bliz, Blizzard) Music was written by Barry Leitch & Ian Howe
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, a computer game published by Blizzard Entertainment
White Bird in a Blizzard is an upcoming French thriller co-produced, written and directed by Gregg Araki.
Great Blizzard of 1978 - A blizzard that affected the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada
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Great Lakes Storm of 1913 - A blizzard that affected the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada
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Great Blizzard of 1888 - A powerful blizzard that affected the Northeast United States
The pandaren - a race of anthropomorphic giant pandas initially created by veteran Blizzard artist Samwise Didier - were introduced to the Warcraft canon in the bonus Horde campaign of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
As such, players who purchased the Collector's Edition of the game would have to send numerous proofs of purchase to Blizzard by postal mail in order to redeem their in-game awards.