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Heidi Marintzer
of Wray, Colorado, 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 neighbor'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.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by
Bernadette Baum)
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