Glad to see this still stokes the memories of people here, as for a lot of you I think, in terms of snowfall amounts, the 1999 storm has been usurped by more recent storms.
Not me though. Still holds the gold in therms of amounts (15.1") and ferociousness. As Hoosier mentioned, very unusual storm in terms of how widespread the foot plus amounts were to the east of the storm track. Where I live, you'd think the most prolific snow producing storm would be an Apps runner, not something that passed over Traverse City.
It was preceded by a horrific December in 1998, much like we're having this year (even warmer though, but just a snowless. And November 1998 wasn't as much as fun as this November either). Just mention that to give hope to the hopeless. Things can turn on a dime.