Bizarre moment boyfriend proposes to partner on roof of their car during flood

Ashley Stevens, 22, and Davie Woodley-Kingston, 24, were celebrating their archetypal day erstwhile their centrifugal got swamped. The brace took to the extortion of their car and phoned for help

This is the bizarre infinitesimal a besotted fellow proposes to his spouse portion the mates were stuck connected the extortion of their car during Storm Bert.

Ashley Stevens, 22, and Davie Woodley-Kingston, 24, were celebrating their archetypal day erstwhile their centrifugal got swamped. The brace took to the extortion of their car and phoned for help. But Davie, who had been readying to propose, was swept distant with emotion and projected determination and then.

The brace had been connected a romanticist nighttime distant successful Chard, Somerset, and were heading to adjacent Taunton for a Nando's. But their BMW started to capable with h2o adjacent Taunton racecourse connected Sunday during Storm Bert.

Davie was forced to ascent onto the car extortion earlier pulling Ashley up to safety. And arsenic they were shivering successful the acheronian waiting for rescue, Davie did the deed.

"I was going to suggest successful our Airbnb compartment aboriginal that evening," the wellness and information advisor astatine Southampton Docks told What's The Jam. "But erstwhile the car got flooded it went truthful acold disconnected the plan. It was specified a crook of events. I thought to myself that it would beryllium memorable and truthful I conscionable went for it."

Rescuers from Taunton occurrence presumption arrived aft astir fractional an hr and pulled the couple, from Southampton, to safety. The firefighters were capable to get the BMW retired of the h2o and, incredibly, it started archetypal time. Davie projected again decently aboriginal that evening and gave Ashley her engagement ringing which he'd been keeping astatine the Airbnb.

The flowers helium bought for the juncture besides survived, contempt being successful the car boot. He added: "The occurrence brigade was fantastic - a existent clump of apical people gentlemen.

"After the astir beauteous and eventful play I couldn't beryllium happier. I'm truthful blessed to beryllium embarking connected the adjacent section of our lives with Ashley.The clip we've had unneurotic truthful acold has been truthful densely packed with memories and giggles. I look guardant to different 60 oregon truthful years making much memories and giggles.

The connection comes aft Storm Bert battered the UK causing large flooding and distruption. Homes were submerged nether h2o and businesses and schools were forced to unopen aft winds hit parts of Britain with speeds of up to 82mph. Caravans astatine the Billing Aquadrome Holiday Park, adjacent Northampton, were near flooded aft it was affected by devastating Storm Bert. The Aquadrome's caravan parkland was forced to evacuate 1,000 radical Monday greeting aft it was submerged by the highest floodwater successful 35 years.