His wife, Cecilia Wessels, had no idea what her husband was doing, until her nine-year-old daughter woke her up from her nap, telling her “dad wouldn’t come inside,” according to FOX8.
That was when Cecilia caught a glimpse of her husband mowing the lawn... with a tornado swirling behind him:
"My beast mowing the lawn with a breeze in his hair."
The family moved to Canada from South Africa where tornados are not common, so Cecilia took a photo, not to show her husband cutting the grass, but to capture the large funnel cloud. She told Times Colonist:
"I literally took the picture to show