video to show you. Corrales here now.
A man rode out the tornado in
Little Rock and his work van and
recorded the terrifying moments.
Let's take a look at that video.
And we do warn you,
there is some foul language.
We bleep. We've beeped it out.
This is cell phone video from 24
year old Cody* who works
as a pest control specialist
finishing his service call.
When the winds picked
up, take a listen.
Holy.
All right? And then now we
have another video from Cody.
Just that he was able to record this.
Look at this. This is footage
from the dashcam of his work va.
Holy cow, the moment the tornado passes over,
leveling the trees just like toothpicks
and throwing that debris all ar.
Debris is one of the main sources of injury,
Corrales tells us now,
there's no audio on this video,
but you don't need to hear it te
how terrifying it must have bee.
Absolutely
terrifying. I just can't imagine
how he was feeling at that mome.
He probably felt stuck because
he he felt like he probably.
He just, we couldn't
get out. There's nowhere to go.
And yeah, there was actually
a funnel a few streets away.
I believe we'll have that here in a SEC.
He was able to film it, so take a look.
This is another one.
Cody filmed the damaged houses
and fallen trees around him,
saying he was so shocked at what happened
and thankfully he survived listening.
Dude.
In fact, he called it the
scariest moment of his life.
Yeah, 100% did think I was going to die once
I saw the wind pick up the way they did.
My first thing that made me bring out
my phone was the clouds in front of me
were actually picking up some debris.
So I saw a little chunks of wood and roofing.
Just being flung around in front of me,
so I knew at that point it had to be nearby.
I was just trying to see if it would come
close enough where I could record it.
I did not think it was going to
come from directly behind me.
Luckily my van was parked the way it was.
The back of it is completely
enclosed with metal cabinets,
though the back of it, it's really safe.
It did take a good little bit of damage,
but if I've been facing the other way it
would have went right through the windshield.
This is the.
My driver's side right here.
I was sitting right there.
I had a big tree branch.
Come right here and leave this
nice little indention across it,
although you can see that
and the back of the van is where
most of the stuff was coming.
Since it came out from behind m,
it's still pretty covered in dirt and debris.
And then over here on this tail light,
the tail light's completely
missing and it ripped into the
van just a little bit right her.
Cody tells us the weight of the equipment
in the van helped weigh it down,
and it prevented the van from
being flung into the winds.
Now, Corrales, let's get your perspective.
I first of all just want to say very thankful
that Cody is all right having experience.
First of all, we've been mentioning how
powerful it was that storm it was rated EF3,
which is 100 a high anywhere frm
1:40 to 165. So you can imagine.
Just how powerful was you saw the trees
just being toppled over like nothing. Yes,
very quickly this happened and he of course,
because of quickly it happened,
he didn't expect that to happen so rapidly.
As you mentioned, he was just kd
of seeing it off in the distancd
things just quickly changed. And
if you're talking about trees
that are 100 years old, even vey
fortunate that the way it's jusw
in that situation how he said h,
he mentioned he had a lot of equipment
in his vehicle and did not flip over,
and it didn't even look like it sustained
as much damage as bad as it could have
for being such a powerful twist.
And this is something I've been thinking
of so much of my mind, the fact that.
It was such a strong tornado,
went through such a populated area and
not nearly as much as injuries or nearly
as much as deaths as we as it could have.
It could have happened and I'm just so
thankful that was not the situa.
I've seen a lot of point of vie.
Matter of fact, I did see his v,
it was on social media when I first saw
it and I've seen since then just so many
different point of views and people just.
Seeing that storm happen because it was
so back to their neighborhood and how
far from Garland County all they
up through Jacksonville and bey,
30 mile Path and the and withine
whole time has been just seeingl
the different perspectives and I'm just
thankful that he's uninjured and he's OK.
Very scary situation and
definitely shell shocked.
There's definitely an appropriae
word for that because that the e
neighborhoods almost look like war zones.
They don't with the debris and everything.
It's just
stuff you don't think you will
see in your own hometown and
Arkansas is not an unfamiliar
to tornadoes. We all know someby
who was impacted sure sure. But
gosh I'm that the winds alone
incredible that he survived that
his van he didn't even sustain a
whole lot of damage but it was t
was a good perspective to see t.
Thanks Carlos for the analysis.