Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.
Attendees saw their campsites transformed by thick, ankle-deep mud and organizers halted vehicles from traveling in or out of the festival after heavy rains started saturating the area Friday evening. Some festival-goers hiked miles to reach main roads while others hoped storms forecast to hit the area overnight wouldn’t worsen conditions.
A Burning Man thread? Well what a better time to repost this:
A couple friends (acquaintances?) of mine usually go down to this every year. One even converted an old school bus into a “Burning Van” for their travels. But because they just had a kid they didn’t go this year, which they were very bummed about and made sure everybody within three degrees of separation from them knew, which seems rather fortunate right now.
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I have some friends who qualify as Burners posting about this on FB. (They're not particularly insufferable )
Apparently first issue is going to be sanitation. Porta potties are normally emptied twice a day and will start to fill in about a day.
Also apparently, "real burners" who take their self-sufficiency seriously are prepared for situations like this, but there's a lot of "tourists" who are not.
A couple friends (acquaintances?) of mine usually go down to this every year. One even converted an old school bus into a “Burning Van” for their travels. But because they just had a kid they didn’t go this year, which they were very bummed about and made sure everybody within three degrees of separation from them knew, which seems rather fortunate right now.
Burning Man Festival: Black Rock City in Crisis
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