1.   For example, the blizzard hit during the same week the government surveys workers and employers to compile the January employment report.

2.   A fluky coincidence that kept me safely at home when the blizzard hit.

3.   A blizzard had hit overnight, and flakes were still coming down hard.

4.   But in the final minutes of trading, they suddenly dropped like a stone, when a blizzard of sell orders hit the market.

5.   Cuvee Notredame was barely weeks old when the blizzard hit.

6.   If blizzards hit Nebraska, well, what do you expect?

7.   She was in Iowa when a blizzard hit Washington, prompting criticism from the Republican National Committee.

8.   That a blizzard hit the region just added to the sense of occasion.

9.   The first blizzard hit in Delanson, N.Y.