Posted on 03/24/2022 3:02:21 PM PDT by McGruff
ELGIN, Texas – It’s a tale of a twister that will one day be told to generations to come.
If you didn’t know who 16-year-old Riley Leon was before today, you might recognize his infamous 2004 red Chevrolet Silverado.
"I never expected it to happen to me," Riley told FOX 7.
The teen was driving home from a job interview Monday on Highway 290 in Elgin, Texas, when an EF-2 tornado blew his truck onto its side and spun it around multiple times before getting flipped back upright onto its wheels.
"I’m speechless," he said. "I'm speechless seeing how my truck got thrown like paper."
The truck had been in Riley's family since before his sister was born.
"That truck helped me and my dad get to where we are now," the teen said.
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Buff it out and resell it as a twister special 🤪
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He will have a story to tell for a long, long time — and there’s video.
“And, yes, Chevy should give him a new truck, just for the publicity.”
“Like a Rock” or is that is somebody’s else’s ad.
Just a neat story know matter what
Good!
A former co-worker lost his son in the library of Columbine HS. The son had just bought an old Chevy 4x4 truck that he loved.
Chevy restored the truck and gave it back to his dad.
Yes, it is a Chevy pickup commercial. LOL
Ping
Wow. It looks to be in decent shape after such an ordeal.
I didn’t understand this last sentence of the accompanying article.
“We’re still working to track down the driver himself. Police said they believe he’s in his late teens or 20s.”
Huh?
Bkmk
The kid needs to buy a lottery ticket.
There’s pictures of it.
https://ktla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/03/Truck-after-driving-through-tornado.jpg?w=1280
They are doing it, they are giving him a new truck. Plus he got the job he had been interviewing for.
Insurance company hauled the damaged truck off. My guess is that the dealership giving him a new truck will get the insurance proceeds. But still I'm sure the difference in price will be a nice gift.
I think he used up all his luck.
Well...
Most tornados don’t get above EF-2, and even those that do usually do so only briefly. Any average build quality house in the US should be sufficient to protect occupants in an interior hallway from an EF-2, usually even in an EF-3. “Usually”. And an EF-3 will pretty much total most houses, even well built homes. An EF-4 is of course another matter, and God forbid one ever being in an EF-5. That EF-4 that went through the middle of Mayfield, KY, last December, wiped houses clean off their foundations, some off the property they were on.
I’m in the mid-south, and no way I’d ever buy a home without a basement or shelter — or, I’d add such.
The other factor beyond being safer in a home, etc., in most tornados, is that at home you can monitor the weather better. The TV coverage was very good, plus I was monitoring the Mayfield storm (zoomed in on a 25” monitor) online. I was yelling at my wife 20+ minutes B4 that monster hit Mayfield to call her friend there and tell them to get to cover. Luckily they were spared heavy damage - by about 150 feet.
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