Texas Teen Caught In Tornado Can't Believe He Survived, Gets Job
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The video of the truck spinning in Texas tornado spread like wildfire on the internet, with thousands of views within a few hours.
The driver of a truck seen in widely-circulated video flipping over on a highway in Texas during a tornado is getting a new truck, thanks to a local car dealership. The video of Riley Leon showed his car being tossed around by the strong tornado winds on Monday, before it miraculously bounced back on its wheels. Leon then drives off. The tornado was among the several to have hit the region due to a strong storm system, which uprooted trees, damaged homes and shut down highways. Was this truck spinning on its side, then flipped upright before it just drove away after getting caught up in a tornado? ????#txwx#Texas#Tornadopic.twitter.com/m4nHQrkmmd
Speaking to local news channels, Leon said he still can't believe he survived that. “Seeing the videos, I'm like ‘that's me and I could've probably not been here'. But thank god I am,” the 16-year-old told Fox 7.
Leon said he was going back home from a job interview at Whataburger. The teenager also said that the insurance company took away the car smashed by the tornado.
But NBC later carried a story in which Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet, a car dealership in Fort Worth, announced that it is giving the teenager a 2022 Red Chevy Silverado to replace the damaged car.
