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Woman lucky to be alive after Perth tornado sends wooden plank flying
A woman is lucky to be alive after a tornado hit residents in City Beach – the force of the wind picking up a four-metre long wooden plank and hurling it 200 metres in her direction.
Perth artist John Major told 9News Perth he heard his wife scream, after part of his neighbours' porch smashed his outdoor glass table.
It was right next to a window, behind which his wife was sitting.
'Another two or three inches to the left or the right and it would have come flying through the window,' Major said.
'My wife would have been dead, there's no doubt about it.'
You can watch the CCTV footage that captured that moment, and hear more of Major's story, below.
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