{"id":2020788,"date":"2023-09-03T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disaster-strikes-debauched-desert-party-thousands-of-revelers-now-trapped-in-muddy-mire\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:25:06","slug":"disaster-strikes-debauched-desert-party-thousands-of-revelers-now-trapped-in-muddy-mire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disaster-strikes-debauched-desert-party-thousands-of-revelers-now-trapped-in-muddy-mire\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of partygoers trapped in muddy mess after disaster at wild desert bash."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div 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style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disaster Strikes Debauched Desert Party, Thousands of Revelers Now \u200dTrapped in Muddy Mire<\/h2>\n<p>Authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/climate-activists-block-road-refuse-move-change-heart-nevada-rangers-truck-comes-speeding-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada<\/a> were \u2062investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man\u2063 festival where thousands of\u2062 attendees remained stranded Saturday night as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/west-point-experiences-catastrophic-flooding-academy-epicenter-biblical-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flooding<\/a> from storms swept through the Nevada desert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tens of thousands\u200c of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-at-strategy-preparation-behind-inauguration-security\/\" title=\"A look at strategy, preparation behind inauguration security\">people attending<\/a> the Burning\u2064 Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as\u2063 they shelter in place after \u200da heavy rainstorm <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/63N6id7vyn\">https:\/\/t.co\/63N6id7vyn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sc0VeClt9Y\">pic.twitter.com\/sc0VeClt9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200c philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Phil_Lewis_\/status\/1698065949155344706?\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Organizers closed vehicular access to the counterculture festival and attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot \u2064or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nycs-mayor-adams-says-they-may-need-vax-mandates-again\/\" title=\"NYC's Mayor Adams Says They \"May Need\" Vax Mandates Again\">wearing plastic bags<\/a> on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>The revelers were urged to shelter in place and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/californians-ordered-conserve-water-cities-told-enforce-edict-face-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conserve food, water and other supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062Pershing County \u200cSheriff\u2019s Office said the \u200cdeath happened during the event but offered few \u200bdetails as the investigation\u200c continued, including the identity of the deceased person or the suspected\u200d cause of\u2063 death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/national-international\/burning-man-attendees-advised-to-shelter-in-place-conserve-food-and-water-due-to-heavy-rain\/3298239\/\">KNSD-TV reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle gates will not open for\u200d the remainder of\u200d the event, which began \u2063on Aug.\u2064 27 and was scheduled to end Monday, according to \u200cthe U.S. Bureau of\u2064 Land Management, which oversees the Black Rock Desert where the festival is being held.<\/p>\n<p>More than one-half inch of rain is believed to have fallen on Friday at the festival\u2063 site, located about 110 miles \u200d(177 kilometers) north of Reno, the National Weather Service in Reno said.<\/p>\n<p>At least another quarter of an inch of rain \u200dis expected Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/life\/arts\/burning-man\/2023\/09\/02\/burning-man-2023-rain-keeps-burners-confined-to-camps\/70749751007\/\">Reno Gazette Journal<\/a> reported organizers started rationing ice sales and that\u2062 all vehicle traffic at the sprawling festival grounds had been stopped, leaving\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hidden-homeless-more-people-living-in-vehicles-due-to-covid-hardships\/\" title=\"\u2018Hidden Homeless\u2019: More People Living In Vehicles Due To COVID Hardships\">portable toilets<\/a> unable to be serviced.<\/p>\n<p>Officials haven\u2019t yet said when the entrance\u2063 is\u2063 expected to be opened again, and it wasn\u2019t immediately known when celebrants could leave the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b announcements came just \u2063before the culminating moment for the annual event \u2014 when a large wooden \u200deffigy was to be burned Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Messages left Saturday afternoon by The Associated \u2062Press for both the Bureau of \u2064Land\u200c Management and\u200d the Pershing County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the agencies that closed the entrance, weren\u2019t immediately\u200d returned.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disaster-strikes-debauched-desert-party-thousands-of-revelers-now-trapped-in-muddy-mire\/\" title=\"Thousands of partygoers trapped in muddy mess after disaster at wild desert bash.\">people played beer pong<\/a>, danced and splashed in standing water,\u2064 the Gazette Journal said.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Jed, a festivalgoer, \u200band fellow campers made a bucket toilet\u2063 so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-is-open-new-york-is-closed-and-ny-has-more-covid-deaths\/\" title=\"Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed, And NY Has More COVID Deaths\">people didn\u2019<\/a>t\u2062 have to \u200ctrudge as often through the mud to reach the portable toilets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it really turns into a \u2062disaster, well,\u2063 no one is going to have sympathy for us,\u201d Jed said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s Burning Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal\u200b has reviewed this\u200c Associated Press \u2063story and may \u200bhave altered it \u2063prior\u2062 to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-thousands-told-shelter-place-burning-man-fest-nevada-access-closed-due-flooding\/\">Disaster Strikes Debauched Desert\u200c Party,\u200d Thousands of Revelers Now Trapped in Muddy Mire<\/a> appeared\u200b first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada authorities probe death at Burning Man festival as floods strand thousands. 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