"When are you going to mow the yard?! My mother is coming and she can't see the yard like this!!! Get out there and mow the yard like you promised!!!"
*sigh* fine...
*sigh* fine...
Whipped Bad!!!
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Let's hope. Surely no ones that stupid!
Cool picture. I have always been fascinated by storms. I love to watch lightning at night
ALBERTA, Canada (KWQC) – Theunis Wessels is a man who likes to finish what he starts.
On Friday evening, he began mowing his lawn in the town of Three Hills and kept mowing even as a towering tornado appeared in the distance.
When his wife, Cecilia, saw him cutting the grass with the tornado at his back, she snapped a dramatic photo.
“A tornado warning had not been issued yet,” Cecilia said. “The warning only came out about 10 minutes later (after the photo).”
Theunis took the tornado in stride and said he was “keeping an eye on it” while he continued to mow.
The Alberta man has hobbies that include mountain climbing, competing in triathalons, and bungee jumping, which may explain why a twister in the distance did not move his needle very much.
He also points out that the funnel was farther away than it appears in the photo.
Cecilia says many in the neighborhood were also taking pictures at the same time she was.
While there was property damage in the area, there are no reports of injuries from the tornado.
On Friday evening, he began mowing his lawn in the town of Three Hills and kept mowing even as a towering tornado appeared in the distance.
When his wife, Cecilia, saw him cutting the grass with the tornado at his back, she snapped a dramatic photo.
“A tornado warning had not been issued yet,” Cecilia said. “The warning only came out about 10 minutes later (after the photo).”
Theunis took the tornado in stride and said he was “keeping an eye on it” while he continued to mow.
The Alberta man has hobbies that include mountain climbing, competing in triathalons, and bungee jumping, which may explain why a twister in the distance did not move his needle very much.
He also points out that the funnel was farther away than it appears in the photo.
Cecilia says many in the neighborhood were also taking pictures at the same time she was.
While there was property damage in the area, there are no reports of injuries from the tornado.
hello; Interesting. Last fall my area was in an extreme drought for many weeks. Lots of fires all around - Look up the burning of hundreds of homes and businesses in Gatlinburg TN.
I was talking to a friend at the height of the drought and he mentioned plans to wash his car the next day. I questioned the waste of water to wash a car. We had been having reports of towns without water from their normal sources in the area. I had stopped washing cars and postponed some work around the house that uses water.
His response was that no official alert about water use had been made by the authorities. I pointed out that he understood about the drought and asked why it would take an "official" request for him to conserve water. His response being that it was legal and I responded, so what it was still the wrong thing to do during the drought.
I guess to some folks it ain't real unless some talking head tells them so.
A tornado touched down in Leroy, AL which is about a mile from us. The tornado never came close to us. But, some strong winds picked a 8ft x 4ft 360 gal acrylic tank off of sawhorses I had it on (to buff out some scratches), carried the tank across the pool patio, over the fence, and took it 75ft towards the side yard woods and smashed the tank against a large oak tree.
