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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 in the distance.
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 70,000 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 13 to 16 kilometers away, the twister was damaging a farm and wind turbines.
“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.
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회오리바람 부는데 결혼 강행한 커플
미국에서 강력한 토네이도가 부는 와중에 결혼한 한 커플이 화제가 되고 있다.
지난 18일(현지시간) 야외에서 식을 올린 펜스 씨 부부는 야외결혼식을 올리는 도중 육안으로 보이는 거리에서 토네이도가 등장하는 아찔한 경험을 했다.
그러나 이 젊은 커플은 이에 아랑곳하지 않고 결혼식을 마쳤다.
신랑 캘렙 씨는 캔사스에서 토네이도가 부는 것은 아주 흔한 일이기 때문에 별로 신경을 쓰지 않았다라고 설명했다.
“전 결혼하는 데에만 신경을 썼습니다,”라고 캘럽 씨는 말했다.
이들의 결혼식 사진은 캘렙씨와 신부 켄드라 씨가 토네이도가 불고 있는 장면을 배경으로 키스를 하고 있는 모습을 담고 있다.
이 광경을 카메라에 담은 사진사 케이트 에이미 씨는 “이보다 더 대단한 사진을 언제 또 찍을 수 있을지 의문이다”라고 말했다.
토네이도는 매우 강하게 돌아가는 가늘고 긴 깔때기 모양의 회오리 바람을 뜻하는데 미국 중부에서 자주 발생한다.
