Now take a look at the aviation herald to see what happened yesterday!
http://avherald.com/h?article=48188170&opt=0
Great timing on your story....

At 17:21 09 February 2015, JJ Sinclair wrote:
With storms pounding both coasts, I thought it would be fun to tell out
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t (worst) storm story. I'll kick it off with my favorite. 1950's, old JJ
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as a boom operator on a tanker crew and we were on a refueling mission
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Colorado. There was a big thunderstorm between us and the rendezvous
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.. The newly formed USAF was not to be stopped by any weather, latter on
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ay decreed that "No peacetime mission required penetrating a
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but in 1953 we charged right on in! The cloud turned a pale green,
except
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when lightning struck, then everything turned red! Vertical gusts were
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al, everyone tightened up their straps and hung on. As the props de-iced,
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ome of it would hit the fuselage and it was like being inside a drum with
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omeone beating on it with a bat! After about 5 minutes of this, the AC
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amed; Navigator, should we keep going or turn around? In a calm voice,
the
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Navigator replied, I don't know, sir, the hail just knocked out my radar!
I believe the Navigator was the only one on the crew that wasn't scared
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tless!=20
We finally flew out the other side and then made a precautionary landing
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Denver. I can still see the big hole in the ray dome and a good 10
inches
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of ice built up on the little stub antennas.
OK, Who's next?
JJ