A tornado can be a dangerous weather event. It is often described as violent and destructive. Tornadoes are known for their strong, fast-moving winds. They can kill people and destroy buildings. Sometimes the winds create what is called a funnel cloud. The cloud moves quickly along the ground, striking down and pushing away whatever it hits. When a tornado is nearby, people are advised to go inside a building and down to the basement or hide in the strongest part of the structure. But recently, one man thought he could still get some outdoor work done even when a tornado was nearby. Theunis Wessels of Alberta, Canada would not get inside his home, even when his daughter asked him to. Wessels said he had to cut the grass growing around his house because there were too many activities planned for the weekend. So his wife, Cecilia, came outside to ask him to come in. He would not, so she took a photograph and shared it on Facebook. Cecilia Wessels wrote “my beast mowing the lawn with a breeze in his hair.”
Title: Canadian Man Cuts Grass in Front of Tornado
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1910/canada_tornado.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Canadian Man Cuts Grass in Front of Tornado' data-article-id='2427'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='4958'>A tornado can be a dangerous weather event.</span> <span data-start-time='4958' data-end-time='10604'>It is often described as violent and destructive.</span> <span data-start-time='10604' data-end-time='17125'>Tornadoes are known for their strong, fast-moving winds.</span> <span data-start-time='17125' data-end-time='21750'>They can kill people and destroy buildings.</span> <span data-start-time='21750' data-end-time='27521'>Sometimes the winds create what is called a funnel cloud.</span> <span data-start-time='27521' data-end-time='36375'>The cloud moves quickly along the ground, striking down and pushing away whatever it hits.</span> <span data-start-time='36375' data-end-time='50583'>When a tornado is nearby, people are advised to go inside a building and down to the basement or hide in the strongest part of the structure.</span> <span data-start-time='50583' data-end-time='60167'>But recently, one man thought he could still get some outdoor work done even when a tornado was nearby.</span> <span data-start-time='60167' data-end-time='71875'>Theunis Wessels of Alberta, Canada would not get inside his home, even when his daughter asked him to.</span> <span data-start-time='71875' data-end-time='83042'>Wessels said he had to cut the grass growing around his house because there were too many activities planned for the weekend.</span> <span data-start-time='83042' data-end-time='89208'>So his wife, Cecilia, came outside to ask him to come in.</span> <span data-start-time='89208' data-end-time='96208'>He would not, so she took a photograph and shared it on Facebook.</span> <span data-start-time='96208' data-end-time='104146'>Cecilia Wessels wrote “my beast mowing the lawn with a breeze in his hair.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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