I live in northeast Ohio (Cleveland area) and we get this - it is a snow storm accompanied by thunder - very strange and in our area at least unusual. On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Joy Moloney wrote: Here in the great land down under where I live some years we're lucky to get a good frost! Lisa, what is 'thundersnow'? Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Conrad" <nisus00@earthlink.net> To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] 1864 Death,James THOMISON > Pshaw. We had "thundersnow" here in Seattle Thursday morning. Quite the > thrill! I hear thundersnow can occur around Lake Ontario... perhaps > some > of our Orkney ancestors who emigrated to that area experienced this. > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, > Subscribing > and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------ List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Evelyn Hlabse http://homepage.mac.com/evelynhlabse/Home/home.html Looking for Williams (Renfrewshire/Skye/Portsmouth) Stewart, Sinclair, Drever (Orkney) Hlabse (Slovenia and Cleveland, Ohio) Laska (Cleveland,OH & Scranton, PA)