I Googled "Eight or ten blizzards a year are not uncommon to coastal areas" and that phrase came up with several websites on the weather in Antarctica.
Anyhow, yes technically a blizzard is:
According to the National Weather Service, 'blizzard' means the following conditions prevail:
There is sustained wind or frequent gusts of 35 miles per hour or greater.
There is falling and/or blowing snow, frequently reducing visibility to less than one-quarter of a mile.
The conditions must persist for a minimum of three hours.
The popular perception of a blizzard involves a large quantity of snow, but that is frequently not the case. This is especially true in connection with storms that move southeast out of Canada into the northern United States, particularly the northern plains. That particular area is so far removed from any source of moisture that snowfall is actually minimal in terms of water content.
But a Nor'easter is something different. Not all Nor'easter's are technically blizzards, but can have blizzard conditions sometimes far inland from the coast; they are basically like a hurricane with snow.
This storm was both. Where I am 30+ inches fell in a 24-hour period and with sustained winds of 35 MPH and near zero visibility for more than 3 hours.
Here in NJ (about a dozen miles west of NYC) they’ve already announced our schools are closed tomorrow. I guess there is nowhere left to put the snow, and they can’t clear the school properties.