This content was created by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This content was uploaded by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This is a YouTube video titled "Life in lockdown: A deserted Niagara Falls" (created 2020-03-29). It is a first-person, vlog-style recording in English of a speaker (identifying as Nagra) narrating from a car during COVID-19 quarantine while driving to and filming the unusually empty Niagara Falls. The speaker describes deserted roads and viewing areas, notes practicing social distancing (staying in the car, a mention of a husband and a few small family groups at a distance), reflects on the view, and urges viewers to stay home.
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This is Nagra during quarantine. So we have been in quarantine for the past 2 weeks, and today we've sneaked out kind of inside the car. We're not supposed to go out at all. You can see the roads are completely empty, and we've just sneaked out. So this is not right, but we just had to come out because it was, it was so claustrophobic. It was, we were like screaming at one another and it was, it's bad. But we're going to Niagara. I'll just show you how empty Niagara can be at this time. This is a lifetime opportunity for, uh, photographs. We're just heading, coming towards Niagara. We just This is the— this is how empty the roads are. Okay, you can see Niagara. Can you see the Niagara? That is Niagara Falls just ahead, and we're going to soon pass by it. We're just going to be in the car, we are not stepping out, so I'm— I just want you to see this as much as you can. Check this out. You can see the falls. Okay, we are going down the bend and I'll show it to you better. This watching the falls was the um it's it's like seeing the ocean for the first time. That's what I felt when I came here first time. Okay, so this is the falls. This is just around the— this is the Horseshoe Bend. This is the falls, American Falls actually. This is the smaller one. Now we are here on the bigger fall. Then that's— and it's so empty. I've never seen Niagara so empty in my whole life. There's just 1, 2, 3, 5, 4, 5. I can count them on my fingers, 4 or 5 people. And that's the That's the horseshoe fall. Yeah, and that is the falls. I don't know if you can see what my eyes can see. You can get off here, right? My husband says no. No, there's— so we have to practice social distancing, so the only one family this side and Just one small family here, and there are people— nobody's here on Niagara. This is incredible, just to watch Niagara without any people. It's unimaginable, but this is what we have to do now. This is just one person on a Okay, see Niagara Falls. So my God, it's beautiful. Parking lot. Or are we going to turn around and go into the parking lot? Hope you stay at home, guys, and do something innovative. Don't, don't miss one any day. Don't step out. Okay, bye-bye.
