‘Burning Man = Total Disaster’: 73,000 Attendees “Hunker Down” As Desert Party Transforms Into Muddy Hellhole

Heavy rains within the Black Rock Desert, the place Burning Man is being held, have pressured organizers to ban 73,000 attendees from leaving as a result of “widespread muddy conditions created treacherous driving conditions,” based on the Reno Gazette-Journal. 

Burning Man posted on X that each one attendees should “hunker down” and keep at campsites as a result of a slow-moving rainstorm has reworked the desert playground right into a muddy hellhole. 

Check in your campmates and neighbors to verify they’re okay, and assist them as wanted. Take benefit of a second of calm to attach with campmates and hunker down. Stay protected!

— Burning Man Traffic (@bmantraffic) September 2, 2023

Organizers instructed attendees to “conserve food & water, shelter in a warm space” amid the rainstorm. 

The gate&airport out and in of Black Rock City stay closed. Ingress&Egress are halted till additional discover. No driving is permitted on playa apart from emergency autos. If you’re in BRC,preserve meals&water,shelter in a heat area. More updates to come back. Stay protected!

— Burning Man Traffic (@bmantraffic) September 2, 2023

As of Saturday morning, gates to enter or go away Burning Man and the native airport stay closed. Even the tech cent-millionaires and billionaires that flew in on personal jets to the occasion within the desert don’t have any method of escaping.

❣️The Gate and airport out and in of Black Rock City stay closed. Ingress and egress are halted in the interim, together with Burner Express Air and Bus. No driving is permitted on playa apart from emergency autos. If you’re in BRC, please shelter in place and keep protected.

— Burning Man Traffic (@bmantraffic) September 2, 2023

At least these with satellite tv for pc web (contemplating cellphone reception is nonexistent on the occasion), equivalent to Starlink, have documented the mess. 

Still smiling #BurningMan2023 pic.twitter.com/nsaciKQ6Ax

— Sharam (@DJSHARAM) September 2, 2023

#BurningMan2023 pic.twitter.com/c9KBuSooVT

— Nanceeee (@Nanceeee33) September 2, 2023

But-but-but what in regards to the ‘local weather disaster’ of the world boiling?  

“Burning Man must be so fucking dry and hot all the time”

There are 3” of fucking slippery mud exterior and one other inch of rain coming. We haven’t left our tent all day, besides to convey a campmate a shovel. pic.twitter.com/wjZrKrdgNb

— 🌈Maly 🔥Burning Man❤️‍🔥 (@malytwotails) September 2, 2023

Radical self reliance is being put to the take a look at at Burning Man as regular rain this afternoon turns the playa to mud.#BurningMan2023 pic.twitter.com/BIEsJHcqGX

— Chris Pietsch (@ChrisPietsch) September 2, 2023

Double rainbow sundown. pic.twitter.com/iX6CfRgshe

— andrew hyde (@unicorn) September 2, 2023

Burning Man 2023 = complete catastrophe. Watching my Facebook feed of my 45 12 months previous buddies who went into the desert with a summer-time tent made for a 2 night time keep in a mountain campground at the moment are unhappy as they sit in alkaline mud in Nevada. Like what did you anticipate?

— Colorado Bear 🐻 (@FoodBevMedia) September 2, 2023

“While the Black Rock Desert rarely gets this much rain at once, the last time it did, Burning Man organizers were forced to shut the gate for several days,” Reno Gazette-Journa mentioned. The National Weather Service mentioned skies won’t clear till Sunday night time and even Monday. 

With attendees instructed to preserve meals and shelter in place, the street closures imply cleansing and servicing of the hundreds of transportable bathrooms utilized by attendees has been suspended. 

The occasion ends Monday, and a few drew comparisons to the 2017 ill-fated occasion within the Bahamas known as “Fyre Festival.”