“I thought I was going to die”. Cody Coombes was convinced of this when he found himself in the heart of a storm this Friday, March 31. “It was the scariest moment of my life so far,” says the resident of Little Rock, a town in Arkansas.
As the roofs of the houses collapsed around him, the young man found himself trapped in his professional vehicle. Videos shot with the dashcam located on the dashboard of his service van show a devastating gale, ripping up all the trees in its wake.
At least five people have died in this state, according to its governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The day before, the governor of the state of Arkansas, had declared a state of emergency the day before and deployed a hundred national guards. In total, 24 people died this weekend in the southern states of the United States after the passage of violent storms.