I've never experienced a Noreaster. I have been in a pretty wicked Blizard in North Dakota, though. Brrrrrr.
Oh, North Dakota is not a place I Would care to be in a blizzard.
In the Winter of 1993 we had 14 major snow storms dumped on us. There was no getting away from the snow. We were caught in a swirl that hovered over the East Coast, we were all snowed in for weeks, '94 was not much better.