Kansas Couple married as EF3 Tornado touches down in background
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[quote]KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping from the sky just miles away.But for people living outside Tornado Alley, Caleb and Candra Pence's wedding last Saturday is generating the kind of buzz usually reserved for celebrity nuptials. The video of the service has gone viral, garnering more than 20,000 views on YouTube and a flurry of media coverage.
"It is amazing how fast it has taken off," said the groom's uncle, Lee Pence, who shot the video.
After Saturday's outdoor service on the groom's family farm near the small south-central Kansas town of Harper, the couple posed for photos with the twister visible behind them. The pictures capture them smiling serenely — the 21-year-old bride in a white gown and the 22-year-old groom in a cowboy hat and jeans.
About eight to 10 miles away, the twister was damaging a farm and wind turbines. The National Weather Service has classified it as an EF-3 storm, packing winds of 138 to 167 miles per hour.
"I don't know how on earth I will ever top this," said wedding photographer Cate Eighmey, who said she posed the pair for dramatic shots of the newlyweds and the twister behind them. Eighmey's photo shows what appears to be a second funnel dropping down from the cloud.
The couple has spent their honeymoon in Wyoming fielding media calls. Reached on his cellphone by The Associated Press, Caleb Pence recalled seeing the wall cloud forming as the service was about to begin. But with tornadoes a routine occurrence, the storm was the least of his worries.
"I had my mind on marrying my now wife," said Caleb Pence.
His bride, a native of northeast Nebraska who had never seen a tornado before, was much less at ease. He said that when he told her what was happening, she responded, "I don't want to hear it right now.'"
Some of the guests who filled the 250 folding chairs checked weather reports on their cellphones. But otherwise, the 20-minute service — complete with a solo singing performance — wasn't altered.
Afterward, the couple, who met at a rodeo, made a dramatic horseback ride to the metal farm building that had been transformed into the reception site. They scarcely got inside when the skies opened up and poured down rain. The party didn't end until after midnight.
"I don't know how we did it," Caleb Pence said. "It boggles my mind how perfect it worked."
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I seriously have no idea on what to say about this.
Saw this on the bottom of the front page of the local paper a while ago
[quote] In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched[/quote]
:rolleyes:
I feel sad for the people that live there in fear that a tornado will suddenly appear near their house.
awesome wedding picture
[QUOTE=7331;36084090]I feel sad for the people that live there in fear that a tornado will suddenly appear near their house.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure it affects them as much as earthquakes affect Japan. Not that much, but holy hell there is a slim but certain chance things could become disastrous.
There's no place like home
[QUOTE=Hidole555;36084145]I'm sure it affects them as much as earthquakes affect Japan. Not that much, but holy hell there is a slim but certain chance things could become disastrous.[/QUOTE]
The ones in Minnesota almost always kill people. I've had a chunk of wood go through a window before, and my friends house was totally destroyed.
I was actually out near there when the tornadoes touched down, and saw this picture on facebook not to long after they put it up.
I love how the person holding the camera was like "Oh, Look. A tornado." and turned it back around like nothing special happened.
[QUOTE=Flazer210;36084329]I love how the person holding the camera was like "Oh, Look. A tornado." and turned it back around like nothing special happened.[/QUOTE]
To them, it's not all that remarkable. We get ~1100 confirmed tornadoes per year on average, so to someone who lives right in the thick of it, a tornado at a safe distance likely isn't cause for much fuss. If it had touched down in the field right behind them, you can bet that people would have been freaking out.
Meanwhile in Kansas.
Seriously, that's amazing.
[quote]"I don't know how on earth I will ever top this," said wedding photographer Cate Eighmey, who said she posed the pair for dramatic shots of the newlyweds and the twister behind them. Eighmey's photo shows what appears to be a second funnel dropping down from the cloud.[/quote]
Take a wedding picture in front of an erupting volcano.
The funny thing is that this could be photoshopped so easily and it kind of loses its remarkability because of that. Still cool though.
That is [b]badass as FUCK[/b].
would have been more awesome with an EF5
Mother nature trying to steal the spotlight.
Flying kites must be fun there.
I remember seeing this on the local news the day after it happened. It's a pretty unusual sight, even for us here in tornado alley.
What a twist on conventional marriage.
I have lived in Kansas all my life and I have yet to see a tornado first hand.
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