March 4 1966 brought a major blizzard to Southern Manitoba, shut down most everything in and around Winnipeg for about a week. Snow was drifted over rooftops of houses. There have been some significant blizzards since then, but that's the one that most people think of whenever the word blizzard is mentioned. I was but a tyke then and don't have any memory of it myself. I do remember a few later ones though.