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'Pretty Much Everyone On The Plane Threw Up' On Gut-Wrenching Landing

Miserable. Just miserable.
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

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Something besides politics put people in the Washington metro area on the verge of throwing up on Friday. 

A powerful storm moving along the East Coast caused winds so strong that they made people sick. 

One plane landing at Dulles International Airport outside Washington during the heavy winds reported that nearly everyone on the flight had lost their lunch or whatever else they were eating. 

The tweet sent out by the National Weather Service’s Aviation Weather Center suggests the experience for the passengers and crew of United Flight 3833 from Charlottesville, Virginia, was miserable. Just miserable.

More than 4,500 U.S. flights had been canceled as of Friday mid-afternoon, according to FlightAware.com. Most of those cancellations were along the East Coast from Maine to Virginia, the area currently being affected by a nor’easter, according to The Washington Post.

Before You Go

Airplane Passengers Over The Years
1927(01 of23)
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The official opening of an airline passenger service between Boston and New York took place when the first two women to make the night trip alighted from the air mail plane in New York on April 5, 1927. The fare was $25 per person. (credit:Underwood Archives via Getty Images)
1935(02 of23)
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Passengers sitting in their seats inside the cabin of a 21-passenger airplane making daily trips between New York City and Chicago circa 1935. (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
1939(03 of23)
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Passengers boarding Pan American clipper ship at Port Washington, NY circa 1939. (credit:Bettmann via Getty Images)
1940s(04 of23)
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Passengers, seated two to a row, talk with their inflight neighbors aboard a Mainliner Convair aircraft as the flight attendant works at the back of the plane in the late 1940s. (credit:Pictorial Parade via Getty Images)
1949(05 of23)
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Stewardess Jane Driscoll lights a cigar for airline passenger Carl Graulein, 68, of East St. Louis, as he prepares to depart for his native Germany aboard an American Airlines overseas flight on Nov. 10, 1949. (credit:Bettmann via Getty Images)
1947(06 of23)
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A model poses walking off the Pan American Clipper 'Challenge' Lockheed 1049 airliner circa 1947. (credit:Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images)
1955(07 of23)
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Passengers enjoy a relaxing smoke on a Transocean Air lines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser circa 1955. (credit:Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images)
1960(08 of23)
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A family walking down airplane stairs. (credit:H. Armstrong Roberts via Getty Images)
1961(09 of23)
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Passengers getting off of a tardy chartered plane on Oct. 1, 1961. (credit:Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
1974(10 of23)
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Miami-bound passengers on National Airlines go through a baggage check. (credit:New York Post Archives via Getty Images)
1977(11 of23)
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Passengers taking a bus to get to a connecting flights in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (credit:Dick Loek via Getty Images)
1980(12 of23)
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Passengers board an Aloha Airlines plane named after Hawaiian monarch 'Queen Liliuokalani' at Honolulu airport in Honolulu, Hawaii on Jan. 2, 1980. (credit:Waring Abbott via Getty Images)
1984(13 of23)
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Just for special snow days, United Airlines now has signs and lines to handle passengers with cancelled flights. They had four lines going and about six agents handling the frustrated travelers on Nov. 12, 1984. (credit:Jim Preston/The Denver Post/Getty Images)
1994(14 of23)
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Airplane passengers look through windows at airplanes being de-iced and plows at work at La Guardia airport on Feb. 11, 1994. (credit:David Rentas/New York Post Archives/Getty Images)
1995(15 of23)
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Shuttle by United travels most frequently between San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sep. 7, 1995. (credit:David Butow/Corbis/Getty Images)
2001(16 of23)
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Travelers stand in line at the United Airlines terminal at O''Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois on June 18, 2001. (credit:Tim Boyle via Getty Images)
2002(17 of23)
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Passengers wait in line at the low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida on Dec. 13, 2002. (credit:Chris Livingston via Getty Images)
2004(18 of23)
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Passengers arrive at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Nov. 23, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (credit:David McNew via Getty Images)
2007(19 of23)
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Northwest airlines passengers check in at Detroit Metropolitan Airport May 31, 2007 in Romulus, Michigan. (credit:Bill Pugliano via Getty Images)
2011(20 of23)
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Airline travellers stand in line to get to the United airlines ticketing counter at Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey on Aug. 29, 2011. (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
2013(21 of23)
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Passengers prepare to board their flight at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. (credit:Sandy Huffaker/Crobis/Getty Images)
2013(22 of23)
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Passengers aboard a US Airways flight take their baggage from the overhead bin as they depart the plane in Phoenix, AZ on Oct. 7, 2013. (credit:Sandy Huffaker/Corbis/Getty Images)
2016(23 of23)
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Passengers walk through the Delta Airlines Inc. terminal at LaGuardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York, U.S. on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (credit:Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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