ThunderSnow! Have You Ever Heard It Thunder On A Cold, Snowy Day?

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I've only actually heard this happen once, and that was back when I was a child of around six or seven years old. My folks and I were snug in the living room of our home we'd bought back in early 1954 when I was a little over a year old. We lived--as my widowed mom and I do now--out in the country just south of Anderson, Indiana, in case you want to look up our location on a map. There was a blizzard going on outside, and, already, the snow was starting to pile up. It wasn't one of those times where the temperature was above freezing enough that rain would mix in with the snow. Yet, we were to soon hear a sound more associated with rain than snow: thunder! It wasn't a sharp thunder clap or a house-shaking booming sound. Instead, it was a kind of rolling thunder sound where it began as a low rumble, increased its volume some, and, then, returned to the low rumble before coming to an end. No thunder had come before it, and none would follow it. I would find out many years later that there was a name for such a rare occurrence: ThunderSnow To date, I've not experienced it again since that time over fifty years ago, though I have experienced regular thundershowers and even thunderstorms during winter months with the last time being a little over a week ago. However, I do know that the Chicago area got quite a bit of it one night during the winter of 2011-2012. In fact, the pictures taken of the sky showed quite an electrical storm going on during that time when it was snowing instead of raining. Several years ago, I wrote a story about some events that had taken place primarily back when I was in college during the 1974-1975 school year. The title of it is: Raw Peanuts Eaten During A Blizzard and it can be found by going here: http://www.epinions.com/content_4671905924 ThunderSnow makes a kind of cameo appearance near the end of the story. I've now told you my experiences related to ThunderSnow, so I hope you'll share your own. Be sure to share your location. You don't have to go so far as to name the nearest town, but just so that people will have an idea of where you live and/or where you were when you experienced this phenomenon. Also, please share whether this is a rare event for you, commonplace, or somewhere in-between...