Internet Reacts to Proposal Mid Blizzard on Live TV: 'It's Just Cringe' - Newsweek

A North Carolina man's engagement plans were foiled by a monolithic snowstorm that deed New York implicit the weekend, but helium decided to sprout his changeable anyway.

The lake-effect snowstorm deed occidental New York Thursday, and the tempest continued into the weekend, totaling as overmuch arsenic 7 feet of snow successful immoderate places.

One Wilmington, North Carolina, mates had plans to sojourn Niagara Falls but were incapable to marque it to their destination due to the fact that of the blizzard.

When Weather Channel meteorologist Chris Bruin interviewed the mates connected unrecorded tv astir their trip, the antheral decided it was the champion infinitesimal to propose. Some Twitter users felt the connection was "sweet" portion others criticized the on-air exchange.

The video shows Bruin calling the mates connected camera and asking what they thought astir the storm. The antheral said helium had ne'er seen thing similar it, since the mates lived adjacent the beach.

A National Guard loader clears dense snowfall aft an aggravated lake-effect snowstorm that impacted the country connected November 20 successful Hamburg, New York. One antheral felt the blizzard was the champion clip to suggest to his girlfriend, which helium did connected unrecorded TV. John Normile/Getty Images

"This is amended than Niagara Falls, right?" Bruin asked.

The question prompted the antheral to motorboat his proposal.

"So, I was going to Niagara Falls. I was going to inquire her if she would walk the remainder of her beingness with me," helium said.

He past gets connected his genu successful the snowfall and proposes.

"Will you walk the remainder of your beingness with me?" helium asked.

"Yeah," she said and past laughs.

The Weather Channel shared the video to its Twitter provender connected Monday.

"Something astir the snowfall tin beryllium truthful romantic," The Weather Channel tweeted. "[Chris Bruin] was successful for a large astonishment connected Friday erstwhile the mates helium was interviewing GOT ENGAGED connected air!"

The net had mixed reactions to the proposal, with immoderate feeling the video wasn't arsenic saccharine arsenic it appeared. The video has astir 12,000 views.

"No," 1 Twitter idiosyncratic responded to the video. "She didn't similar that."

"I'll beryllium honest, it's conscionable cringe," different tweeted. "She didn't look excessively hyped."

When Bruin asked the miss what her thoughts connected the connection were, she said, "I don't know."

The man, however, seemed pleased.

"We didn't marque it to Niagara to bash this, but this is overmuch amended I think," helium said arsenic snowfall piled connected apical of the mates and Bruin.

Others called the connection "awesome" and "sweet."

It seldom snows successful Wilmington, with the larboard metropolis lone receiving fractional an inch truthful acold successful 2022, according to the National Weather Service. Prior to that January snowfall, Wilmington hadn't received snowfall since January 2018, erstwhile it snowed astir 4 inches.

The mates embraced earlier the video ended. Newsweek reached retired to The Weather Channel for comment.