By Tim Binnall
A jaw-dropping video from Arkansas shows the moment a woman wound up being sucked out of a building while filming a tornado that swept directly over her. The incredible footage was reportedly captured by Kimberly Shaw last Friday afternoon as she was visiting a dental office in the city of Little Rock. Mesmerized by the sight of a powerful EF-3 tornado that had formed in the distance, she called her husband, Jimmy, into the building from the parking lot and began filming the unsettling scene with her cell phone. Declaring "oh, I'm gettin' this," a determined Shaw stood at the door of the dental office as the violent storm barreled towards her.
To Shaw's profound terror, when the storm reached the building, she noticed that its incredibly strong winds were opening the door of the dental office behind which she stood. "The windows behind us blew out, and when it did, it sucked me out," she recalled, telling another local media outlet that "there was debris hitting me, it was flying over my head. That's all I could see was debris everywhere." Shaw credited her husband for saving her life as Jimmy "grabbed a hold of me and he pulled me back inside" in the building. After the storm had passed, he subsequently required stitches from injuries sustained during the misadventure, but otherwise the pair managed to make it out of the potentially deadly predicament largely unscathed.
Amazingly, Shaw managed to continue filming as the entire nightmarish moment unfolded and her stunning footage has understandably gone viral online. Later reflecting on their experience, Shaw expressed regret over her foolhardy decision to stick around at the door of the building in order to film the storm. "I was very dumb in videotaping it," she said, dismissing her proverbial fifteen minutes of fame and declaring "it is not worth the hype, its dangerous. The only thing you need to do during a tornado is get somewhere safe."