Man who mowed lawn with tornado behind him says he 'was keeping an eye on it.'

FEARLESS MAN MOWS AS TORNADO RIPS... http://ift.tt/2sFBUgU THREE HILLS, Alta. — A photo of a man in Alberta mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him has been causing a storm on social media. Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, on Friday evening as the twister passed near their home in Three Hills. She said cutting the grass was on her husband's to-do list, and as he started the task, she went for a nap. Wessels said she was woken by her nine-year-old daughter who was upset that there was something like a tornado in the sky, but her father wouldn't come inside. Theunis Wessels said the tornado was actually much further away than it appears in the photo, and that it was moving away from them. There have been no reports of injuries from the tornado, although some other photos show downed trees and a barn with its roof ripped off. "I literally took the picture to show my mum and dad in South Africa, 'Look there's a tornado,' and now everyone is like, 'Why is your husband mowing the lawn?’” Cecilia Wessels said Saturday. "Our whole street, everyone was on their back patios taking pictures," she said. Theunis Wessels said he was keeping watch of h
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