{"id":2021561,"date":"2023-09-04T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burning-man-festivalgoers-almost-cleared-to-leave-flooded-desert-organizers-say\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:23:17","slug":"burning-man-festivalgoers-almost-cleared-to-leave-flooded-desert-organizers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burning-man-festivalgoers-almost-cleared-to-leave-flooded-desert-organizers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Burning Man&#8217; attendees ready to depart waterlogged desert, confirm organizers."},"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\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fburning-man-festivalgoers-almost-cleared-to-leave-flooded-desert-organizers-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" 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>Burning Man Festival- Exodus Begins After\u2062 Flash Flooding<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Burning Man\u2062 festival organizers on Monday said they expect attendees to begin leaving the event site by midday after rain and flash flooding trapped more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/1-dead-70000-stranded-after-flash-flooding-interrupts-burning-man-festival-in-nevada-desert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70,000 \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cannes-film-festival-requires-really-gross-covid-19-saliva-testing\/\" title=\"Cannes Film Festival Requires \u2018Really Gross\u2019 COVID-19 Saliva Testing\">festival-goers<\/a><\/a> \u200din the northwestern \u200dportion \u200cof\u200b the Nevada desert over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/burningman.org\/event\/wetplaya2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, event officials said the main road \u2064to enter and exit the site is drying up but remains\u2062 \u201ca\u2063 bit too muddy,\u201d with standing water impacting those attempting to navigate out of Black Rock City.<\/p>\n<p><h3>Exodus Planned for Noon<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExodus\u2063 is planned to officially begin around noon today, Monday 9\/4,\u201d the statement\u2064 reads. \u201cExpect an update again in the \u200cnext few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burning Man festival, which has attracted up to 100,000 \u2062people \u2064to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1-dead-70000-stranded-after-flash-flooding-interrupts-burning-man-festival-in-nevada-desert\/\" title=\"1 person killed, over 70,000 stranded due to flash flooding at 'Burning Man' festival in Nevada desert.\">remote area roughly \u200b100 miles<\/a> away from \u2063Reno since the 1980s,\u200d describes itself\u2063 as a \u201ccommunity\u200b and global cultural movement\u201d that tests self-sufficiency, promotes radical self-expression, and pinnacles at the end during \u2064the burning of a giant wooden effigy.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMan burn\u201d\u2062 was\u2063 initially scheduled\u2064 to happen on Sunday\u2064 night, \u2064but \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burning-man-festivalgoers-almost-cleared-to-leave-flooded-desert-organizers-say\/\" title=\"'Burning Man' attendees ready to depart waterlogged desert, confirm organizers.\">festival\u200d organizers postponed setting ablaze<\/a> \u200cthe effigy at \u201cThe Chapel of Babel\u201d at midnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Departing the festival, known \u200cas \u201cExodus,\u201d typically takes up \u2064to 12 hours \u2063for festival-goers to leave the site as thousands of cars and trailers drive\u2062 off the \u2063playa \u200band onto a two-lane desert\u2063 highway.<\/p>\n<p>Festival organizers advised attendees\u200b to wait until \u200dTuesday to\u2062 depart to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-real-life-iron-man-the-incredible-story-of-elon-musks-rise-to-worlds-richest-man\/\" title=\"\u2018A Real Life Iron-Man\u2019: The Incredible Story Of Elon Musk\u2019s Rise To World\u2019s Richest Man\">alleviate traffic congestion<\/a> throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Thick, ankle-deep \u2062mud overwhelmed more\u200b than 70,000 people\u2063 attending the annual \u200cweeklong summer festival\u2063 in the Nevada desert as heavy\u2064 rain poured in the\u2062 area\u200c for several hours, leaving festival-goers stranded and forced \u2064to shelter in place and\u2062 conserve resources.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man \u200bProject, <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/burning-man-attendees-struggle-escape-70000-remain-stuck-black-rock-ci-rcna103175\">told<\/a> NBC News on Sunday that \u201cthere is no cause for panic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very pleased and surprised that there\u200d has been such \u2064a fuss over us,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve made it really clear that\u200b we do not see this as an evacuation situation. The water is drying up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s \u200bevent began\u200b on August 27 and was scheduled to end Monday.\u2064 But after heavy rains started flooding the festival\u2063 site and adding to an\u2064 already saturated playa on Friday night, the Bureau of\u200d Land Management and the Pershing County Sheriff\u2019s Office officials closed\u2063 the festival\u2019s entrance gate.<\/p>\n<p><h3>Investigation into Death\u2063 at Burning Man<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities in the Nevada desert are investigating \u200cone death at the Burning Man festival \u2064after rain \u2062and flash \u2063flooding forced\u200d tens of thousands of attendees to shelter in \u2063place and conserve resources on Saturday.\u2063 Although the deceased person\u2019s identity or the cause of death has \u200bnot been publicly released, authorities \u200csaid family\u200b members have been notified. Burning \u2062Man officials said on Sunday\u200c that the death was \u201cunrelated to the weather,\u201d\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/burning-man-festival-nevada-death-fema-b2404260.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>expected to reopen soon, allowing for a smooth departure of over 70,000 festival-goers who were stranded due to rain and flash flooding at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. 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