After heavy rains triggered thick mud to flood streets, 10s of thousands of Burning Man revelers were left stranded in a remote area of the Nevada desert.
Videos shared on social media on Saturday program ankle-deep mud throughout Black Rock City, a short-term city putup for the yearly week-long occasion. People can be seen in the clips sloshing around with trash bags or Ziploc bags over their feet to prevent getting stuck in the pasty mud.
Access to and from Black Rock City was closed “for the rest of the occasion” after rains mauled the location Friday night and Saturday earlymorning, turning the sandy desert into thick mud, organizers stated in a declaration emailed to Newsweek on Saturday night. The weathercondition was so extreme it setoff a “shelter in location” alert, where participants were advised to save food, water and fuel.
Burning Man is held in a remote part of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada approximately 100 miles from Reno. The occasion, which dates to 1986, draws more than 60,000 guests to Black Rock City to dance, make art and witness the burning of a huge wood effigy recognized as the Man, according to the occasion’s site. Burning Man, setup this year from August 27 to September 4, hasactually been heldoff as participants, likewise called “burners,” are caught by the inclement weathercondition striking the location.
Some burners, consistingof a coupleof celebs, chose to ditch their muddy campingareas by treking anumberof miles to the closest roadway, according to videos shared on social media.
In one clip, DJ Diplo informed his 2.4 million X fans that he treked 5 miles with his buddy, comic Chris Rock, priorto they were able to drawback a flight from a fan.
“Just strolled 5 miles in the mud out of burning guy with chris rock and a fan chose us up,” Diplo published.
Shortly after Diplo shared the video on X, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department published about the closure of the entryway to Burning Man for the rest of the occasion. Officials cautioned that anybody driving near the location will be “turned around.” People participatingin the occasion are prompted to wait at their campingsites.
Newsweek reached out through e-mail to the Washoe Sheriff’s Office for remark.
Burning Man, according to the site, is not a celebration however rather a “community and international cultural motion” that is based on 10 countercultural concepts, such as radical self-expression. The Burning Man site war