While not directly related to this Typhoon, I took a flight from TPA to IAH the same day a strong category I (weak category II) hurricane made landfall around the Louisiana/Texas coastline.

It hit the coastline in the morning and then went down to a borderline category I / Tropical Storm levels at the time of my flight departure. At the gate they weren't sure if my flight was a go or not, but it did go and we kept at an altitude of about 39k.

The flight was quite choppy and bumpy each time we would hit one of the "bands" - which were well defined & interesting to see by air - and it was a bit turbulant going into IAH. I would say the turbulance never got any worse than a couple bouts of borderline light/moderate turbulance (on the light side of moderate by "true definition") as we passed through the bands. We had a F-A-S-T drink service upon departure from TPA and then a quick clean-up. Once we did hit the turbulance the crew was strapped in for the remainder of the flight. The tubulance was enough to shake-up some pax; personally, I was expecting it to be worse, as I've flown through some true moderate to severe turbulance, once which required an aircraft to undergo maintanance checks upon arrival.

I had a long connection at IAH, during that time the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression. No problems on connection.

TheZipper: Thanks for the Typhoon tracking tool.

In closing, it's impressive what aircraft can fly though/over -- I honestly was expecting a no-go that day, the tubulance was much less than expected and at IAH there were very few cancellations and a handful of delayed flights on both the arrivals and departures board.

SDF_Traveler