Heavy rains trapped tech titans, artists and other free spirits who had flocked to this Nevada desert playa for the annual Burning Man festival. They are accustomed to weathering withering heat and dust storms. But this year, they wound up wallowing in the muck.
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The man structure, which is normally burned on Saturday night, looms over the Burning Man encampment after a severe rainstorm.
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