Stranded at Burning Man

[Blast]

Rains have turned the Playa where Burning Man is held into a mudpit and all roads in/out are closed until it dries enough to support vehicles.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/02/burning-man-festival-mud-trapped-shelter-in-place?CMP=share_btn_tw

This will be very interesting.
-Blast

[Uomo Senza Nome]

Well, at least it cant go Road Warrior as weapons are strictly forbidden at Playa.

[majorhavoc]

1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains

Authorities are investigating a death at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert as thousands of people remain trapped on the site after heavy rains inundated the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud.

Attendees were told to shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert and conserve food, water and fuel after a rainstorm swamped the area, forcing officials to halt any entering or leaving of the festival.

Still, you gotta love Burning Man:

Still, the poor conditions have not stopped the creativity, said Hannah Burhorn, a first-time attendee who had traveled from San Francisco.

"People are building mud sculptures," she said.

[Uomo Senza Nome]

1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains

Authorities are investigating a death at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert as thousands of people remain trapped on the site after heavy rains inundated the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud.

Attendees were told to shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert and conserve food, water and fuel after a rainstorm swamped the area, forcing officials to halt any entering or leaving of the festival.

Still, you gotta love Burning Man:

Still, the poor conditions have not stopped the creativity, said Hannah Burhorn, a first-time attendee who had traveled from San Francisco.

"People are building mud sculptures," she said.

Will someone help that poor woman! She is clearly drowning.

Safe money says the death was an overdose or heart attack.

[flybynight]

1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains

Authorities are investigating a death at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert as thousands of people remain trapped on the site after heavy rains inundated the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud.

Attendees were told to shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert and conserve food, water and fuel after a rainstorm swamped the area, forcing officials to halt any entering or leaving of the festival.

Still, you gotta love Burning Man:

Still, the poor conditions have not stopped the creativity, said Hannah Burhorn, a first-time attendee who had traveled from San Francisco.

"People are building mud sculptures," she said.

Will someone help that poor woman! She is clearly drowning.

Safe money says the death was an overdose or heart attack.

Maybe from watching her playing in the mud

[Anianna]

I'm surprised this hasn't happened before considering they're holding it during monsoon season. 

Or is the Nevada desert not generally considered in the monsoon region? 

[majorhavoc]

1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains

Authorities are investigating a death at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert as thousands of people remain trapped on the site after heavy rains inundated the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud.

Attendees were told to shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert and conserve food, water and fuel after a rainstorm swamped the area, forcing officials to halt any entering or leaving of the festival.

Still, you gotta love Burning Man:

Still, the poor conditions have not stopped the creativity, said Hannah Burhorn, a first-time attendee who had traveled from San Francisco.

"People are building mud sculptures," she said.

Will someone help that poor woman! She is clearly drowning.

Safe money says the death was an overdose or heart attack.

Maybe from watching her playing in the mud

I could say that the only reason I posted that particular picture is because inexplicably, she seems to be prominently featured in quite a few news stories covering the crisis.  



Truth is, I found the picture of her more, ahem, pertinent than the one of this guy.

[Z.O.R.G.]

there are somethings you just can't unsee...

[Uomo Senza Nome]

So Polar Bears DOOO migrate South for the Summer.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/09/03/01/75000811-12474525-image-m-89_1693699503687.jpg

[wee drop o bush]

There's something freeing about being clabbered in mud, glorious

[flybynight]

There's something freeing about being clabbered in mud, glorious

[Raptor]

there are somethings you just can't unsee...

True...over the years I have gone to nude beaches all over...it never fails that the people there when I go tend to favor the "gentleman" in the second picture. For some reason it seems that people who really should not, are first ones to bare it all.

There is a reason clothes were invented. I give you the gentleman in the second picture as Exhibit A.

[Zed hunter]

I've paid to take a mud bath.

[flybynight]

I've paid to take a mud bath.

I bet 


https://youtube.com/shorts/Y-VK7HH98YE?si=0zDhkSfwD9Cug7lE

[Uomo Senza Nome]

It started emptying out Monday.

The sheriff blames the organizers for doing dumb things and wrecking the environment:

https://www.nytimes.com/article/burning-man-mud-trapped.html

Sheriff Allen also said that attendees leaving Burning Man were "angry" and "not showing compassion to their fellow man."
"As usually happens in what burners refer to as the 'default world' people allow their emotions to override their reasonableness and they are lashing out at each other as they leave the playa and attempt to make it to their next destination,"


CNN Blamed wealthy Capitalists:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/business/burning-man-billionaires/index.html

Going to Burning Man is, in some elite circles, akin to having climbed Everest or taken ayahuasca on a meditation retreat — a spiritually transformative experience, undertaken with a considerable safety net of privilege.

I lol'd


The dead guy was an overdose, about as surprising as Prigozhin dying in a fiery plane crash.:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/burning-man-leon-reece-suspected-death-drug-intoxication-rcna103369

[Zed hunter]

Nope.  At the Indian springs spa.