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An Oklahoma man suffered a broken neck after being knocked to the ground by the devastating tornado that tore through his home town at the weekend.
Austin Thompson was rushing to find shelter in downtown Sulphur, a town of around 5,000 people, as a tornado began to sweep through the town on Saturday night.
'When I open the door, I take like a few steps, and I'm like, 'Holy crap, I'm not going to make it 15 feet to the shelter,' Thompson told Koco News.
'So I turned around to get back in the door I came out of, and as soon as I tried to do that, I just remember hearing the sound of when you get pushed underwater' he explained from his hospital bed.
'The sound of like just a 'whoosh', and then just remember getting smacked to the ground,' he said but was not able to remember what it was that hit him.
Austin Thompson suffered a C6 and C7 neck fracture as well as a fractured nose and a two-inch cut on his chin that required thirty staples to close
Sulphur, a town of around 5,000 people, was devastated by a tornado on Saturday night
Four people died and three hundred people were injured in the state's weekend of extreme weather
Thomson managed to scramble inside and waited for the devastation to pass.
His friends then helped him make his way to the Artesian Hospital where he learnt that he had a C6 and C7 neck fracture as well as a fractured nose and a two-inch cut on his chin that required thirty staples to close.
The neck fractures will likely heal within about six weeks.
Thomson was one among almost three hundred people that were injured in the state's weekend of extreme weather.
Overall four people in the state died, including a baby, sixty-two people suffered cuts or were pierced, seventy-seven were injured after a fall, seven had poison injuries, fifty-nine were struck by or against something and
