Just got off an IAH-YYC flight which experienced the most violent turbulence of my life. About an hour out of IAH the captain came on and said to buckle up since we'd be trying to squeeze through two lines of thunderstorms. Shortly afterwards we hit a violent drop which caused the drink cart to hit the ceiling along with just about everything else in the cabin including drinks, cell phones, and laptops. Numerous folks were screaming and afterwards the FA made a special trip through the cabin just to pick up the used air-sickness bags. She also made a comment that in her 25 years as an FA she'd never experienced anything that bad. Fortunately all pax seemed to have heeded the seatbelt sign or it could have been pretty ugly. The pilot came on after all was calm and explained that the gap in the storms had closed at the last minute and we'd gone straight into a severe storm.

Out of curiosity I looked up the flight on FlightAware along with PIREP which I believe pilot issued:

DHT UUA /OV LBL225040/TM 0040/FL380/TP B738/TB SEV/RM ZAB 340B380

Curious to know if anybody else here has experienced something similar? In my ~350K of lifetime flights I've never had anything even close to this.