Rain and mud leave Burning Man revellers stranded in Nevada desert – National | 24CA News
Tens of 1000’s of revellers attending the Burning Man Festival within the Nevada desert have been requested to shelter in place and preserve meals and water on Saturday after a rainstorm turned the location into mud.
Access to and from Black Rock City, the occasion’s web site, was closed “for the remainder of the event,” organizers mentioned in a press release on social media.
“Rain over the last 24 hours has created a situation that required a full stop of vehicle movement on the playa. More rain is expected over the next few days and conditions are not expected to improve enough to allow vehicles to enter the playa,” the U.S. Bureau of Land Management mentioned, in accordance with
native media reviews.
More than 60,000 members journey to and from the distant space in northwest Nevada yearly, in accordance with the occasion’s web site, gathering within the non permanent metropolis to make artwork, dance, and revel in neighborhood.
The competition will get its identify from its culminating occasion, the burning of a giant wood construction referred to as the Man on the penultimate evening.
The gathering, which originated as a small perform in 1986 on a San Francisco seashore and is now additionally attended by celebrities and social media influencers, was scheduled to run from Aug. 27 till Sept. 4.
— with information from Maria Caspani
