- Darlene Brown recalled saying to herself “I’m going to die” when a storm hit.
- Footage showed gale-force winds hitting his car and tearing out a window.
A Houston woman said she feared for her life after strong winds lifted her car off the ground and blew out its rear window.
Darlene Brown was in her car waiting to pick up her brother last week when a severe storm hit the Texas city, killing seven people and causing dangerous flooding.
Footage captured the moment the storm hit Brown’s Toyota Corolla, tearing off the rear windshield and lifting it off the rear wheels.
“I thought I was really going to fly in the air,” Brown said. ABC13as she remembers saying to herself: ‘This car is going to drag me… I’m going to die.’
Shocking footage captured the moment severe storms hit Houston, Texas, last week, ripping a rear window off a Toyota Corolla and ripping it off its rear wheels.
The vehicle’s owner, Darlene Brown, said she feared for her life when her vehicle was hit by the storms.
Brown was waiting outside Wells Fargo Plaza to pick up his brother from work, but had to stay longer than expected.
“He called me and said, ‘I’m stuck in the elevator,'” she said.
As she sat in the street, Brown said the storm passed in a matter of moments, bringing strong winds and rain through the city and sending debris flying.
Thousands of windows across the square were shattered, and Brown said she spoke to her sister on the phone to calm herself as shards of glass and debris hit the street.
‘I say, “I’m about to die.” I say, “This car is going to drag me. I’m going to die,” she recalled telling her sister.
Footage of the storm hitting his car was filmed by attorney Michael Lombardino, who shared the footage from his dash cam, and Brown said he noticed his car later appeared on the news.
The strong winds lifted his car by its rear wheels and pushed it several feet to the side of the sidewalk, and Brown said he “felt like he was flying in the air.”
“I felt like he had picked it up and moved it, and I thought he was going to take it,” he added.
Brown called his sister to wait out the storm and recalled telling her, “I’m going to die.”
In an unfortunate twist, Brown said that although she luckily escaped the storm unscathed, she returned home to find that a tree had partially fallen on her house.
In an unfortunate twist, Brown said that while she luckily escaped the storm unscathed, she returned home to find that a tree had partially fallen on her house.
‘It couldn’t be worse. I’m just saying, well, I don’t know what we’re going to do now,” she said.
Brown said he was able to remove the tree without any significant damage, but is still waiting to get back on the road since his car is in the repair shop.
