Meteorologist Pops Question To Meteorologist GF In Front Of Tornado
I proposed to my wife in a graveyard. I thought it would be romantic to drop to a knee in front of her dad’s gravesite. Well, a couple from Kansas may have me beat haha!
A couple of meteorologists got engaged and he put his own twist on the proposal. Tom Bedard and his girlfriend Raya Maday are storm chasing sweethearts who both work for AccuWeather in Kansas and share a passion for the weather. Since they had never seen a tornado in person, they drove six hours to catch a glimpse of their first tornado together and that’s when he popped the question.
The lovebirds first met at a meteorology conference in 2016 and quickly bonded over their mutual interest. Not long after, they were both hired by AccuWeather and started working together in the company’s Wichita office, with Tom in emergency management and Raya forecasting severe weather. He had been planning the proposal for months, but had to wait for the weather to cooperate to get his perfect moment.
That opportunity came on Memorial Day in Colorado, where conditions were right for a chance of a tornado. The couple made the expedition and just as the twister touched down in the distance. Bedard got down on one knee with the engagement ring in hand. Raya recalls that she was thinking, “What a beautiful storm structure” as the tornado dropped to the ground and then she turned and saw her love also on the ground kneeling. “The feeling of seeing your first tornado and being proposed to is unmatched,” she says. “If ‘Twister’ had a sequel, it would go a little like that.”
Source: Daily Mail
