Boy survives tornado by hiding in clothes dryer

An 11-year-old Iowa boy survived a tornado by climbing into his family's clothes dryer.



Austin Miller was at his Lenox home watching television when he received a call from his mother, telling him to take shelter in the laundry room . There were tornadoes approaching the town, and the Millers' house does not have a basement.

With debris flying around the house, Austin went to the laundry and climbed into the dryer. For several minutes he heard the tornado wreak havoc on his house.


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"If he wouldn't have been in that laundry room, it would have come right down on him," the boy's mother, Jessica Miller, said after the tornado wrecked their home. "I'm proud of him for doing that," she said.

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