BLACK ROCK CITY, Sept 4 — Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded yesterday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a...
BLACK ROCK CITY, Sept 4 — Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded yesterday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death.
“It was an incredibly harrowing six-mile hike at midnight through heavy and slippery mud, but I got safely out,” lawyer Neal Katyal said on social media.“No one should try this unless in good shape and part of a group. These are dangerous conditions to hike and will likely get worse.” “My boots are five inches, and the mud became five inches so I was kind of on stilts,” Lee said, adding people were being told they may be stuck until Tuesday.A video posted on social media showed comedian Chris Rock hitching a ride in the back of a pickup truck after managing to leave.The muck “seems to stick to people, stick to tires makes it very, very difficult to move vehicles around,” he said, adding that most RV motorhomes were stranded.
“Anything less than that will get stuck. It will hamper exodus if we have cars stuck on roads in our camping areas, or on the Gate Road out of the city,” they said on a “2023 Wet Playa Survival Guide” special webpage. “We have done table-top drills for events like this. We are engaged full-time on all aspects of safety,” organizers said.
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