r/interestingasfuck 19d ago

A man in South Dakota proposed to his fiancé while a tornado swirled right behind them /r/all

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u/HalobenderFWT 18d ago

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)

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u/Metals4J 18d ago

They mostly go northeast. Mostly.

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u/HalobenderFWT 18d ago

Mostly…