[mamelukesabre]

Well, then you must've been flying over when the tornados and icestorms weren't around. I'm not 100 percent sure of this, but I think the american great planes region is the only place in the world where you get thunder snow storms. You can have thunder, lighting, ice, snow, flash floods, and tornadoes all at once.

[rintense]

Not true. We get thundersnow here in Michigan. I remember back in 1991 while I was at Michigan State, we had a thundersnow storm while there was a tornado watch. It was incredible! We had snowball fights with snow falling- and thunder and lightning!