Yeah, we topped out with 9-10" on the ground with the Dec 1996 event before the rain started. Most I saw on the ground during my time growing up in the PNW, albeit brief.
I think 1/6/04 topped out at 7".
My parents deciding a day or two before to go to the snow in CA. We stayed at some cabins in Arnold, CA roughly at 4k ft. We were going to go to a snowpack further up. Yet that morning we awoke to a lower than expected snow line.
Went to a college football game in CA against the crosstown rival in 2010 and we had to evacuate the stadium at halftime because of a close thunderstorm.
Having snow fall at my parents house at 200 ft in CA but melting on impact after a day trip to SF.
For the NW: Getting stuck in Seaside, OR with my now wife after we took the bus to go shopping when it started to snow. Yeah that was dumb. We had to stay at a stranger's house after attempts to rescue us failed. That Feb 2014 week was wild. It caused me to hate snow for awhile but I love it now.
Feb 2019 in Western WA during the Snowpocalypse and cursing this forum under my breath as I prayed the "weather nerds" were wrong. I of course came to like it. I just didn't get paid much that time and I was in my Tim phase. Looking back it was incredible.
At my current location: we had a really deep snow in Dec or Jan 2020. Can't remember when it wss but I wish to this day that I had been measuring snow that winter.
Last winter having thunder snow was something I won't forget. It also dropped to -12F with 8 consecutive sub freezing highs.