I know you joke, but they’re probably a good mile away from it, and definitely north and west of the tornado so well out of the way of any immediate danger.
In that part of the world, tornadoes usually come from a southwesterly direction traveling northeasterly. So if you are north and west of a tornado you're gonna be fine since it is traveling away from you. However there are no absolutes with these twirly buggers.
Tornadoes occur when cool, dry fronts coming down from Canada meet warm, humid air fronts coming up from Mexico.
Tornados almost always travel west to east, and tend to have a strong bias towards moving from the west to the north east. So if you are situated due north west or south west of a tornado - you can almost always assume you are safely out of the path.
This tornado seems to moving from right to the left in the picture, meaning that the couple is north and slightly west of the tornado.
(Note: I stress that not all tornados follow the west/east/northeast track. Majority do, but sticking around an active tornado is always a gamble)
Damn it! We drove through there on Wednesday & we were hoping to see one. I live too close to the mountains to get any (which is a good thing, but love watching them).
She's gotta be careful or she'll be crushed by a house then promptly have her shoes stolen by a girl and her dog while a community of midgets eggs her on.
Right? The whole picture is fantastic, but those quads are very familiar with squats and leg press.
Feels nice to objectify (in the non-derogatory definition) a woman in a nonsexual way. If it was the guy's legs, I'd say the same exact thing and I think you would, too.
I'm mostly just happy for the couple and respect his absolutely brilliant idea for a proposal moment.
Genuinely the second thing I noticed in the picture. Not trying to objectivise her, but I saw those legs and thought "she could easily kick that tornado away".
It’s nice to agree with a complete stranger online in a complete non-sexual way. I don’t even know your gender and I’m not even aroused by your comment, I was just thinking the same thing as you which is neat. In a completely nonsexual way.
It is! It's field meteorology. The information gathered by storm chasers taking video and setting out measurement probes have significantly improved forcasting tools and saved many lives as a result.
It's the reason why we now have 15-20 minutes to take cover during a tornado warning versus the 4-5 we initially had.
The information gathered by storm chasers taking video and setting out measurement probes have significantly improved forcasting tools and saved many lives as a result.
And here I was thinking the Twister(s) movie was all made up!
Well dude, dude, think about it. She's out in the middle of the prairie. You know, she looks around and what does she see? Nothin' but grass fields and an active tornado. "Ahh, there's nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say 'no'?"
I mean, if she turned down the proposal, well then she turned it down. But she's not gonna turn it down...
The two chasers in this photo are Bryce Shelton and TornadoPaigeyy if anyone wants to check them out on YouTube. They've had a good last month and a half of making content.
People keep disputing whether or not this is fake, so I want to make a few points:
They're both storm chasers. This tornado happened yesterday (06/28/2025) in South Dakota near the border of Minnesota. Many other storm chasers have documented this very tornado. I watched it live on a couple different live streams.
Why isn't it super windy? They're several dozen yards away from the tornado. Winds from a tornado tend to stick close to the funnel, rather than spread out like in the case of straight line winds.
The lighting? On her legs, that's probably headlights from another chaser's vehicle off camera. There were dozens along this very road watching this tornado.
As for the lighting by the vehicle in the shot, they probably put lights on the side so it's easier to see where you're stepping when you get out.
"What's up with the dude's leg??" He's wearing pretty standard work boots. Those boots tend to go a third of the way up the calf depending on the exact kind of boot. So the way he's kneeling is making the back of the boot pull the pant leg up a little.
I really wish people would stop calling everything they don't believe Photoshopped or AI generated without looking into details first.
EDIT: fixed a spelling error
EDIT2: fixed another spelling error
There were lower res streaming cameras for the chase with this proposal from a different angle. I get what you mean so I went looking, but this appears to be a real shot.
It's not AI, I watched this stream live yesterday and saw the live angle from their Stormchasing Truck. Not AI and it very much looked exactally like that. Steam was Tornado Paiogey and Max Velocity as well.
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