Minsk Youngsters Turn Puddle Into ‘Sea’ During Xaver Cyclone

The swimmers were photographed by the employees of one of the offices.

The Xaver cyclone came to Minsk yesterday. The city was flooded, part of the streets turned into rivers. This caused many inconveniences to most city dwellers, but there were those who found advantages in such a situation. For example, in the Vasniatsou Street, a guy and a girl swam merrily in a puddle, writes tut.by.

The swimmers were photographed by employees of one of the offices in the Vasniatsou Street. It was in the afternoon, when the street was already very flooded.

“The water here stood at the level of 30 centimeters,” says reader Andrei. “The guy and the girl arrived by car. The girl was wearing a swimsuit. They took a lifebuoy ring and began to swim. Apparently, they shot a video in order to get some hype.

According to Andrei, the young people did not swim for long. And the “sea” in the Vasniatsou Street quickly disappeared.

- After lunch, the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived, they saved some car and cleaned the storm sewage, - the source continues. - Therefore, by four o’clock we had no water in the street.

Andrei says that their street turns into the “sea” for the second time. It was flooded two years ago, during the most severe rain in Minsk in the entire history of meteorological observations. However, the interlocutor met the swimmers here for the first time, although their pictures are already becoming viral in the social networks.