The Ultimate Flooded Commute

What it means

People wade through a flooded city street while a long wooden plank walkway offers a precarious way across the water. The absurdly calm survival scene becomes funny because the rising flood turns an ordinary urban crossing into an improvised obstacle course. Whales & CHAINMAN’s “Die Young” adds a dramatic, upbeat music-video feeling that heightens the contrast with the chaotic flooding and makes the clip feel deliberately cinematic.

Sound

♪ Whales & CHAINMAN — Die Young

music / музыка

Objects

floodwater / паводковая вода flooded street / затопленная улица wooden plank walkway / деревянный настил metal crowd barriers / металлические ограждения pedestrians / пешеходы people in coats / люди в пальто bicycle / велосипед historic building / историческое здание museum facade / фасад музея street signs / дорожные знаки traffic light pole / столб светофора streetlamp / уличный фонарь drainage pipe / дренажная труба ripples on water / рябь на воде improvised crossing / импровизированный переход people sitting by the flood / люди, сидящие у затопленной улицы