
Rob Cohen had been waiting for the best instant to suggest — and that second dawned on him as Hurricane Ian approached Florida.

Cohen had a emotion that the site of his to start with day with Mary Fixl — alongside Lake Eola in Orlando — would quickly be flooded by the monster storm. So, he rushed his husband or wife out to the location on Wednesday as it was starting up to rain.

“Almost everything else was shut. And I was like, ‘You want to go on a small hurricane experience with me?'” Cohen explained.

Cohen dropped down on 1 knee, in the pretty place exactly where they walked on their initially day in December 2021, and he requested Fixl to marry him.

Immediately after the proposal, the pair hurried back to their property and stayed put even though the hurricane battered the state for hours on Wednesday, killing a lot more than 20 and leaving destruction in its route.

‘A Really FLORIDA Issue TO DO’

Fixl and Cohen have been together for 9 months, but they have acknowledged each and every other for 12 yrs — they met as neighbours.

When Fixl was on a 10-working day European cruise previous 7 days, Cohen reported he realized, “I essential to hurry up and marry this girl simply because I was not a satisfied camper although she was long gone.”

He did not squander one more working day.

“I figured that would be a pretty unforgettable way to propose in a hurricane,” Cohen claimed.

“It can be a pretty Florida factor to do,” Fixl stated.

Fixl said she was in the shower when Cohen requested her to go on a “hurricane adventure.” He handed her a sundress for the situation. When she asked irrespective of whether she wanted to do her hair and makeup, he claimed no.

“I assumed we were just likely to go perform in the rain,” Fixl claimed. “Minimal did I know that he was likely to propose so I have no hair, no make-up. I have a gown on in the middle of the storm.”

CNN occurred to be looking at the tender instant from a distance — and before long questioned for an job interview.

“It was variety of surreal, to notify you the real truth,” Cohen reported, just after talking to CNN’s Ryan Young. “And then CNN interviewing, it just place the cherry on major.”

Cohen was correct about having to the place numerous hrs in advance of the storm. The big fountain in Lake Eola Park was underwater when he observed it on Thursday, he explained.

The couple’s second-tale condominium was unscathed by the hurricane, though the ponds all overflowed, Fixl claimed. The damage was minimal this time, but they’ve expert even worse.

“We’ve been by way of like six or seven hurricanes in this article, the worst of which was Charley in 2004,” Cohen claimed. “And that seemed like a bomb went off in the complex.”

Remaining grateful for their residence and for every single other carries them as a result of, whilst discovering appreciate took a lengthy time for Cohen and Fixl.

“Appreciate can be quite surprising,” Cohen stated. “Under no circumstances give up hope for the reason that I’m 52 and …”

“I’m just about 40 and I’ve under no circumstances been married,” Fixl explained, jumping in.

“Often you just gotta wait around for it,” he reported.
