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Narrative: While the Rain Poured, Wedding Bells Rang

South Carolina Public Radio
Published August 1, 2016 at 9:47 AM EDT
Blair and Hal Lindsey outside their wedding reception venue on Senate street in Columbia, while the rains of the beginning stages of the flood poured around them.
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Blair and Hal Lindsey outside their wedding reception venue on Senate street in Columbia, while the rains of the beginning stages of the flood poured around them.
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Blair and Hal Lindsey exiting the chapel of the Diocesan House at historic Trinity Episcopal Church just after being married on October 3rd, 2015.
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Blair and Hal Lindsey exiting the chapel of the Diocesan House at historic Trinity Episcopal Church just after being married on October 3rd, 2015.
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Blair posed for photos on the Lindsey family's property just before the wedding and the rain began.
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Blair posed for photos on the Lindsey family's property just before the wedding and the rain began.

    On Friday, October 2, 2015, Blair Minick listened heartbroken to the next day’s weather forecast. On Saturday, she was supposed to marry her fiancé, Hal Lindsey, by the Saluda River. As the rain began to fall, all of her carefully laid plans seemed doomed to fall through, but in fact the flood only proved Blair and Hal’s commitment to one another.
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