A truck driver credits god and the invention of seatbelts for saving his life during a severe windstorm in Kansas earlier this week.
The storm happened on Tuesday, March 4th in Garden City, Kansas.
According to Fox Weather, truck driver Marcus Clark was traveling on US route 83 north of K-68 Highway with an empty trailer after making a delivery when the 70 mph wind gusts hit him.
Clark says the wind lifted his trailer off the ground and eventually forced him to steer the semi truck into a ditch, but no one was hurt.
“A cataclysmic event. It was just like a movie. It went in slo-mo,” he said. “I looked to my left, out my driver’s side mirrors, and (saw) that the trailer lifted first. It didn’t look like it was coming back down. “I look straight ahead to make sure that there (were) no cars coming towards me,” Clark explained. “Once I knew that I was not going to save it, I just went into the ditch.”
“My family, friends, wife … everybody said God was there with me,” he recalled. “And when I see the pictures, I’m like, yeah, he really was.”
“If I didn’t have that seatbelt, I wouldn’t be here,” he added.
Clark says that was the first time he’s encountered such ferocious wind in his 13 years of driving, and he hopes to never experience it again.
“The wind definitely is most dangerous for me,” Clark stated. “I’ve been through it all. I can at least see snow. I can see rain. Even tornadoes. But wind? If it comes out of nowhere, you’re not going to see it.”