We all saw the photo, it’s legendary. The massive tubular twister looming in the not too far distance with the man calmly, almost unaware, cutting his grass in the foreground. But the tornado that touched down north of Three Hills on Friday night was more intense than previously thought. This Day in Weather History.

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Today is a special longer-length episode where we will look back at how this all came to be and what goes into the production of a podcast.  Especially one that deals with only weather and "weather adjacencies." and I'll explain whatever the hell that even means as well. Let's celebrate!!

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 It was originally known as the Barrie Tornado given that they took by far the hardest hit and suffered the highest casualty numbers and they were the biggest city affected when compared to Grand Valley and Tottenham who also were beaten to a pulp by an F4 and suffered deaths as well.

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I will caution you up front that many of the details in today’s story are very troubling and therefore listener discretion is advised.  "Vanport" is not a painful trigger word for so many because of any ghost story, or any calamitous disaster—that will be our primary story to come later; this town will forever have a dark cloud over its memory because of raw, unabashed racism. 

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This shipwreck didn’t happen at sea, It was also not even on the sometimes deadly waters of  Great Lakes and it also didn't even happen in stormy weather. May 29, 1914 the passenger ship The Empress of Ireland was traveling in the St. Lawrence river, off Rimouski, in the province of Quebec.  However, at the same time and In the same waters was a Norwegian ship named the Storsdad. I think you can see where this is going.

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Among the excited skywatchers were teams of scientists and volunteers who stood ready to document a variety of atmospheric conditions with the hope of advancing meteorological science. They not only had a perfect location but they forecast an area with ideal weather conditions for viewing the eclipse along much of its incredible over 1500KM track!!

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The City of Toronto deployed more than 45,000 sandbags, 1,000 metre bags, and more than a dozen industrial pumps to try to control and in any way lessen the effects of the rising water. But now there were reports surfacing of water coming up through the ground inland from any shoreline.  Land liquefaction!! This was getting real bad, real fast!

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The plane pitched and rolled violently as it ran into this severe inter-cloud turbulence with huge hailstones pounding the exterior.  One passenger said that it felt like a showering of bullets and then came a mighty thump. What hit this plane?

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One of those hit by a bolt at this picnic was Florida high school student Ernie Perez.  He was thankful to be alive after being struck down by a lightning bolt during a family picnic, leaving him with those tell-tale fascinating burn marks on his neck and shoulder.

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This was the first tornado widely documented by science as part of a storm chasing field research. You heard me right, this started the Storm Chasers!! This was out of Norman, Oklahoma where they placed teams of storm chasers around it to capture its life cycle on film.

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