Extreme up-close video of tornado near Wray, CO
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Colorado couple poses with tornado in prom photo
Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 08:31 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 08:42 AM EDT
A couple of eastern Colorado teenagers posing for a traditional prom photo received a unique memento as the girl's mother snapped the shot with a tornado in the background.
Heidi Marintzer of Wray, Colo., said that when the twister first appeared Saturday on the horizon, she and her 15-year-old daughter, Ali, along with the girl's boyfriend, Charlie Bator, 18, had sought shelter indoors.
Then, when the twister started to move away, Heidi Marintzer went outside with the teenage couple and they posed for photos in a neighbour's backyard, with the tornado in the background.
"We were just like, we can't believe this, it's so beautiful and yet it's a tornado," Marintzer said in a telephone interview.
Two photographs taken by Marintzer that feature the twister, with one showing the couple hugging and the other a close up of Ali with her tongue out, have gained widespread media attention and gone viral on social media.
The twister was estimated to be more than 2 miles (3.2 km) away when the photo was taken, Marintzer said.
Ali and Charlie subsequently attended their prom at Wray High School in the town of about 2,300 people. The event was delayed by about 45 minutes because of the twister, Marintzer said.
In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photograph provided courtesy of Heidi Marintzer and taken with a cellphone, Charlie Bator, left, and Ali Jolie Marintzer pose for a photograph before going to prom at the local high school as a tornado skips across the farmland behind the couple near Wray, Colo. A string of tornadoes bedeviled the small farming communities along the Colorado/Nebraska border Saturday as a spring storm swept across the Mid-Plains. (Photo Courtesy of Heidi Marintzer via AP)
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Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 08:31 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 08:42 AM EDT
A couple of eastern Colorado teenagers posing for a traditional prom photo received a unique memento as the girl's mother snapped the shot with a tornado in the background.
Heidi Marintzer of Wray, Colo., said that when the twister first appeared Saturday on the horizon, she and her 15-year-old daughter, Ali, along with the girl's boyfriend, Charlie Bator, 18, had sought shelter indoors.
Then, when the twister started to move away, Heidi Marintzer went outside with the teenage couple and they posed for photos in a neighbour's backyard, with the tornado in the background.
"We were just like, we can't believe this, it's so beautiful and yet it's a tornado," Marintzer said in a telephone interview.
Two photographs taken by Marintzer that feature the twister, with one showing the couple hugging and the other a close up of Ali with her tongue out, have gained widespread media attention and gone viral on social media.
The twister was estimated to be more than 2 miles (3.2 km) away when the photo was taken, Marintzer said.
Ali and Charlie subsequently attended their prom at Wray High School in the town of about 2,300 people. The event was delayed by about 45 minutes because of the twister, Marintzer said.
In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photograph provided courtesy of Heidi Marintzer and taken with a cellphone, Charlie Bator, left, and Ali Jolie Marintzer pose for a photograph before going to prom at the local high school as a tornado skips across the farmland behind the couple near Wray, Colo. A string of tornadoes bedeviled the small farming communities along the Colorado/Nebraska border Saturday as a spring storm swept across the Mid-Plains. (Photo Courtesy of Heidi Marintzer via AP)
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First video is Reed Timmer; he's been doing this kind'a stuff for years. Only thing is now he's got the PhD to back the wackiness. One of the more extreme chasers out there for needing to get close. That said, I do like him.