Steff, You don't fly into thunderstoms, that is suicidal... Don't have any personal experience with this, though I believe most, if not all these companies have been doing this for a long time. They should not send you out alone to do this. This would obviously be a co pilot type gig for you, and you would get some good Wx experience it seems. Northern CA has very bad drought conditions, though that is a whole nuther story... What you would probably be doing is "procuring" water for NoCal before the Wx system moved to an adjacent state and rained naturally...
Last edited by Yoda2; 11-19-2014 at 11:54 AM.