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Heavy rains strand thousands at Burning Man - Magical Realist - Sep 3, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nevada-desert-burning-man-weather-rain-09-03-23/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3xWCtUh7kqaaW3A-MlY3atN1nyJoraB_yKVc-YMsUsNqKMJt5y3lQHf4w
"Burning Man organizers say they are placing mobile cell trailers around the battered festival grounds, configuring their Wi-Fi system for public access, and sending buses to nearby Gerlach, Nevada, to pick up people who might have walked out of the desert and ferry them to Reno.
Event staff members are also calling in more four-wheel-drive vehicles and all-terrain tires to help in the case of any medical or other urgent situations. Traffic in and out of the event grounds remains closed to non-emergency vehicles.
Some attendees managed to walk to a main road and were waiting for the buses sent by festival organizers Saturday night, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said.
Resources have been brought in from around northern Nevada to help people with medical needs on the event grounds, authorities added.
“Burning Man is a community of people who are prepared to support one another,” the organization said on its website. “We have come here knowing this is a place where we bring everything we need to survive. It is because of this that we are all well-prepared for a weather event like this.”
“We have done table-top drills for events like this,” organizers added.
“We are engaged full-time on all aspects of safety and looking ahead to our Exodus as our next priority,” they added, using the festival's term for the time-consuming conclusion and exit from the desert."
RE: Heavy rains strand thousands at Burning Man - C C - Sep 4, 2023
They still planned to burn the Man tonight around 9:30 local time, though. No rain to put his fire out.
EDIT: Rain came to the Man's rescue after all.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thousands-stranded-burning-man-plan-ceremony_n_64f51b80e4b01b2fe4b670fb
But, the weather thwarted the plans to “burn the Man.”
“Due to rain & muddy conditions Sunday & an inability to move heavy equipment & fire safety onsite, the Man Burn will not happen tonight, Sunday,” the account posted in an update on Sunday evening. “It is now scheduled for Monday 9/4, at 9pm. Chapel of Babel is scheduled to burn at midnight, Tuesday 9/5 (i.e. Monday night 9/4).”
RE: Heavy rains strand thousands at Burning Man - Magical Realist - Sep 5, 2023
Mass exodus as many "just want to go home"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKTrbuKJRzs