There was a movie a few years ago "Day After Tomorrow" with Toby Maguire I believe. End of the world kind of movie where there is another ice age. When they are in New York and everything starts to freeze suddenly. Then at a point they are in the eye of the storm and things start freezing solid within seconds. People actually freeze instantly. For some reason while i was reading Roland's description of the Starkblast after they meet Bix, this is what I thought of..