Have any of you guys flown through any strong t-storms? I remember in '97 I was flying NAS-CLT-RIC on US and on the CLT-RIC(B737-300) segement, we encountered a huge storm. The pilot told us to look out of the left side of the plane and there was nothing but dark clouds and lightning (it was about 7pm) The captain said we would divert to RDU and wait until the storm passed. Well we still were at cruising altitude about 15 minutes later and he said he was going to fly in behind the storm. Well we went north of RIC and then made a 180 degree turn into the backside of the storm. We started bouncing up and down and left and right through thunder and lightning, pretty scary. Us passengers had no clue where we were and all of a sudden we saw a few lights and we were on the ground and everyone started to clap. We were the last flight in that night, about 1 hour behind schedule. Another time was when I was little on a NW DC-10(DTW-MSP) and my mom said it was the worst storm she'd ever been in, but I slept through the whole thing
. Share some of your storm stories!

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