BLACK ROCK CITY: Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded Sunday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gat...
Attendees look at a double rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on September 1, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada’s Black Rock desert into a mud pit. AFPPIX: Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded Sunday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death.
“I got scared with what happens when so many people run out of toilet paper and water and food, so I felt I had to get out,“ Pascale Brand, a 40-year-old Dutchwoman, told AFP.She got a seat in a neighbor's vehicle and they made it down a muddy road without problem. Organizers asked festival crowds to hunker down at the Black Rock City venue after the heavy rains started Friday night. Scattered showers continued throughout the weekend, and it rained for two hours Sunday.
The California surgeon said he was worried about missing patient appointments Tuesday, but that there was “nothing I can do about it right now.”Organizers had insisted that the event’s finale attraction -- the burning of a structure known as “the Man” -- was set to go ahead Sunday night. But by Sunday afternoon, the festival’s website only said more info on the blaze would be shared “as soon as possible.
Mobile cellphone trailers were being deployed and the site's wireless internet was opened for public access.
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