[Wright is right!]

It's not something you see every winter, but one year when I was stationed in Detroit, I went home one evening and witnessed a snow thunderstorm for the best part of a half-hour. It's something to see. But, like regular liquid thunderstorms, the effects upon accumulation are fleeting. Yes, you get very heavy snowfall RATES, but they don't last long. We got maybe 5 inches out of that storm, a yawner by Michigan standards.

Michael

[DK Zimmerman]

I wouldn't hazard a guess about its frequency in the mid-west, but it is fairly common in Germany. What a waste of money, unless of course it gets this (incompetent?) loon out of country for a really long time.

[Damocles]

Yeah, I live in Michigan as well, and if I remember correctly we had one a couple years ago.

Very cool, but not worth $460,000.