Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded on Sunday (Sep 3) in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death. Video footage showed costume-wearing 'burners' struggling across the wet gray-brown site, some using t
Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded on Sunday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death.
"There were people yelling at you, 'You can't leave ... Go back! The gates are closed,'" she said, but the vehicle made it past an unmanned gate and to a paved road.Others made the strenuous journey on foot. A Burning Man participant makes their way through the mud in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud on Sep 2, 2023. A video posted on social media showed comedian Chris Rock hitching a ride in the back of a pickup truck after managing to leave.
This handout received from the Washoe County Sheriff's Office on Sep 3, 2023 shows flooding on a desert plain seen past a Washoe County Sheriff truck, after heavy rains Sep 2 turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. Organizers warned that only some four-wheel drive vehicles with all-terrain tires were able to move.
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