wall area, and that s what you start to get josteled around, you are obscure with cloud cover and rain, what is unique about the major hurricanes is, as soon as you hit the eye wall, and punch through it and it opens up in to the clear blue sky and calm winds. so, it s incredible. you talked about you could feel the power of the storm as you were flying through it. how do you feel that in an aircraft? well, one example is there s something that we call slip. and so, when you are flying through the storm, you know, you are trying fly in at a straight line, and but, you know, you are getting blown from the side so much, so, we have a slip. so we were at about 35 degrees slip. that means to maintain a constant heading, we had to be 35 degrees pointed the other direction. it s an example of how extremely strong the storm is. major, i appreciate all the