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Riley Leon, just 16 years old, was driving home on Highway 290 from United States after appearing for a job interview at a well-known fast food chain when his truck was flipped on the driver’s side by a tornado.
After a video of his red vehicle went viral due to the weather phenomenon, the teenager from Elgin, a city located in Bastrop County in the US state of Texas, received a new truck from a dealer.
Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth told WFAA television that Riley was contacted with a 2022 Chevrolet Silverado to replace the vehicle that helped him escape and a check for $15,000 on March 26.
the shocking video viral of his amazing escape was published in Twitter by Brian Emfingera storm chaser, on March 21, the day the tornado tore through central Texas.
Video of Riley Leon receiving a new truck from a dealer
“I was devastated to see my hard work gone”
Speaking to WFAA’s sister television station, KVUELeon pointed out that the tornado seemed to have come out of nowhere and that, when his truck came back to land on its wheels, “It seemed that nothing had happened”.
seeing that had just survived a tornadothe teenager stopped on a section of Highway 290 and saw that his Chevy truck was dented, scratched and all its glass was broken. “I was devastated to see my hard work gone”Leon said.
“It’s a family heirloom that my dad inherited from me, but I paid for it”added Leon, who is now happy with the new vehicle that the dealer gave him after surviving the EF-2 tornado that registered winds of 209 km / h and a runway length of 23 kilometers.
How are tornadoes formed?
Tornadoes are formed by a current of hot and cold air that converge horizontally. When this meeting occurs, the hot air that should be above the cold air is trapped in a lower plane and causes both currents to flow at different heights in parallel and in opposite directions, specifies the Aquae Foundation.
What are the characteristics of a tornado?
according to website caracteristicas.cothe tornados They can come in all shapes and sizes, but they generally resemble a spinning tube of clouds, funneling from the sky to the ground and often surrounded by a cloud of debris and dust, since their winds are so intense. that pluck and pick up everything in their path.
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