Posted AT 9:54 AM EDT on 29/12/05
‘Mother Nature was mad at the world'
In the fury of a late-summer tornado, a ballpoint pen was driven seven centimetres into a tree in southern Ontario.
The impromptu missile split the trunk of that tree. But in a year when Environment Canada noted that it seemed "Mother Nature was mad at the world," that particular storm didn't even top the list of 2005's most serious weather stories.
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