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| - Fact Check: Chennai soaking fun? No, this video is old not from Cyclone Michaung
A 2021 video of floods in Kanyakumari was falsely shared as Chennai people amusing themselves during Cyclone Michaung.
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India Today Fact Check
This video has no links to Cyclone Michaung. It is a 2021 video from flood-hit Kanyakumari.
At least 17 people have reportedly died in Chennai as Cyclone Michaung ravaged the city and three neighbouring districts. Now, a video of people seemingly playing around in a waterlogged area is making the round on social media.
In it, people can be seen doing push-ups and sliding on flooded streets. Those sharing the clip alleged that this was shot in Chennai during Cyclone Michaung. One person shared the video on Facebook, writing, “Peoples in social media: pray for Chennai.
Meanwhile, in Chennai people actually are #strangethings”. The archived version of this post can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that this video is neither recent nor is it from Chennai. It is an old video from Kanyakumari.
Our Probe
A reverse search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a YouTube video from November 15, 2021, containing multiple clips of people enjoying themselves in waterlogged areas. The video featured people playing volleyball on a flooded ground, along with the video in question showing people doing pushups and sliding in a waterlogged street.
This proves that this clip predates the landfall of Cyclone Michaung in Chennai. Additionally, the description of the video stated that these clips were from Kanyakumari.
We then found a report by News 18, dated November 15, 2021, containing the viral video. According to it, multiple clips of youngsters turning the flooded streets of Kanyakumari into a water park surfaced on social media as heavy rainfall battered the state of Tamil Nadu.
The report carried posts by the Facebook account that shared the visuals of people in Kanyakumari having fun amid the flood, including that of people sliding in the waterlogged streets. The caption stated the location was Anjugramam in the Kanyakumari district.
Per reports, heavy rainfall hit different parts of Tamil Nadu, with 14 places in Kanyakumari recording rainfall of over 100mm within 24 hours on November 13, 2021.
Chief Minister MK Stalin also visited the rain-affected areas in Kanyakumari and took stock of the situation on November 16, 2021.
It is thus, clear that old videos from a 2021 flood in Kanyakumari were falsely shared as visuals from Chennai amid Cyclone Michaung.
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