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- On Thursday evening, deadly tornadoes touched down across central Alabama counties as storms passed through the region.
- The storm comes just a week after nearly 50 tornadoes tore through the Midwest and wreaked damage across several states.
- Several videos of the extreme weather went viral as residents took cover under a state of emergency.
Of all the places you wouldn’t want to be stuck with your boss, inside of a tornado is probably at the top of the list. For one Alabama man, it was too close of a call.
“I was like this is probably it. I’m probably dead,” 22-year-old Cesar Villaseñor told CNN, who took a viral video from within a potential tornado.
A reporter for a local Fox affiliate shared the video on Twitter taken in Pelham, Ala., not far from where several tornadoes were reported to have touched down.
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SCARY perspective inside a likely tornado as it tore through Pelham
Source: Cesar LANGUAGE warning pic.twitter.com/wbThplVPcx— Jonathan Hardison (@FOX6Hardison) March 25, 2021
“We were literally half a mile from his house and everything was all clear. Out of nowhere, it starts raining and I started recording — everything starts going to hell basically,” Villaseñor told CNN. “At one point, the van was shaking really bad to the point that I thought it was like to flip over. I was just shaking. I couldn’t control my hands.”
Multiple tornadoes were confirmed moving through Alabama as the region took cover from severe thunderstorms and winds just one week after a barrage of tornadoes tore through the south. At least six people were reported dead in Calhoun County, Ala., about an hour east of Pelham, and residents documented extensive damage to homes and buildings in photos and videos that went viral on social media.
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