This hero's actions should give us a whole new perspective on Father's Day this year.
Posted on 06/19/2010 7:46:11 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
MENTOR, Minn. — Wes Michaels sacrificed his own life to save his daughter, Heidi, from the tornado that destroyed the Cenex gas station/convenience store late Thursday afternoon.
Heidi Michaels, 25, who teaches at Climax Public School, was helping out at the store to give her father a day off on his 58th birthday, when the tornado hit this lakeside community of 150 about 50 miles east of Grand Forks.
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Greater Love has no man.
Bless his soul, in Heaven triumphant.
What a counter weight to the story of the azzhat who sent his little girl to sail around the world to make himself famous.
May God bless this family.
And thanks for posting this story. There are heroes among us.
I remember several years ago during severe flooding, a local man lost his life trying to rescue complete strangers—a woman & her teenage daughter.
strangers—a woman and her daughter. They survived, he didn’t.
A Father’s Love.
The article doesn’t say what exactly killed the man though...hmm..the word hero comes to mind in many ways.
This hero's actions should give us a whole new perspective on Father's Day this year.
Crying.
Luckily, my nephew-in-law didn’t lose his life but he laid on top of his wife and daughter in a recent tornado in OK. The house was destroyed but they were all okay.
Happy Father’s Day to this great man who to his death protected his daughter. Now he is spending Father’s Day with the greatest Father ever...the Almighty.
Prayers for the family of this great man. They have lost someone precious and heroic. They can take comfort though knowing he is in Heaven and how much that he loved his daughter.
Yeah, it was a pretty sloppily-written article. Without the headline, you’d never know he died.
I must agree.
A father’s duties never seem to be finished.
What are the correct instructions to do about opening or closing doors and windows if a hurricane is predicted in your area?
We should send this story to Mr. King of the Washington Post whose article today touted BHO as the great “family man.” Mr. Michaels’s example could teach him (and us all) a thing or two. God bless his soul.
Wes Michaels, father of the year.
Most people don't know this but the majority of Congressional medal of Honor winners win the medal by jumping on a grenade that threatens their buddies. Smothering the blast with their own bodies they usually save the lives of their friends.
There are heroes out there, as this father proves, his love for his daughter was greater than his love of self, as it should be.
we don’t get hurricanes...the closest we get are straigh-line winds with rain during thunderstorms.
Tornadoes rotate,the great majority of tornadoes rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. But occasionally, northern hemisphere tornadoes do rotate clockwise.
Tornado Science, Facts and History:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050322_tornado_season.html
Oh yeah, to answer your question,forget about the old notion of opening windows to equalize pressure; the tornado will blast open the windows for you!
http://www.tornadoproject.com/myths/myths.htm
Thanks for your answer.
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