3MileRadius

Boarded a plane at DFW to MSY that was delayed for two hours due to a thunderstorm moving through. Prior to departure, the captain let’s everyone know that there would be no food and beverage services because of the potential turbulence as would be flying over the system that had just passed.
I was sitting on the last row of the right side the plane and the little seat for the flight attendant was on the left side, rear facing and a row or two forward from me.
We hit turbulence so bad that it felt like we had dropped 40-50 feet and hit the floor. The magazines in the seat backs all flew up into the air and on to the floor. Many people (including myself) screamed like little girls.
Because the flight attendant’s seat was facing me, I could see the horror in her face. When a flight attendant gets scared, that’s when I get scared. After it settled the captain called her on the phone in the back of the plane. She says to me “The captain says that was just moderate turbulence” as she rolled her eyes.
If that was moderate turbulence, I’d hate to see severe.
In the concourse at MSY it was like everyone had seen a ghost…terrifying and yes, I thought I was going to die on that plane.