{"id":2022794,"date":"2023-09-05T21:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wait-times-to-exit-burning-man-drop-after-flooding-left-tens-of-thousands-stranded-in-nevada-desert\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:11:53","slug":"wait-times-to-exit-burning-man-drop-after-flooding-left-tens-of-thousands-stranded-in-nevada-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wait-times-to-exit-burning-man-drop-after-flooding-left-tens-of-thousands-stranded-in-nevada-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man exit delays decrease after floods strand thousands in Nevada desert."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwait-times-to-exit-burning-man-drop-after-flooding-left-tens-of-thousands-stranded-in-nevada-desert%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=2022794&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>Exodus from Burning Man Festival Begins After \u200dEpic Rainstorm<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200c traffic jam leaving the \u200dBurning Man festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada\u2064 desert entered a second \u200cday following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of brothers from Arizona who took their 67-year-old mother with them to Burning Man for \u2062the first time spent 11\u2062 hours into early Tuesday morning just\u200c getting \u2062out of the festival site, which is 15 miles (1.6 kilometers) from the\u2063 nearest city of Gerlach, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt \u200cwas a perfect, typical Burning Man weather until Friday\u2014then the rain \u2064started coming down hard,&#8221; said Phillip Martin, 47. &#8220;Then it turned into Mud Fest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/burning-man-festival-exodus-set-to-start-through-drying-mud-5485922\">Burning \u200bMan Revelers Begin Exodus After Flooding Left Tens of Thousands Stranded\u200d in Nevada Desert<\/a> (9\/4\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/burning-man-a-disaster-like-its-never-been-seen-seasoned-reveler-on-nevada-festival-storm-5485927\">Burning Man \u200da\u200d Disaster\u200b Like \u200bIt&#8217;s &#8216;Never Been Seen\u2019: Seasoned Reveler on\u200d Nevada Festival Storm<\/a> (9\/4\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Event organizers began letting traffic flow out\u200c on\u200c the \u2062main road around 2 p.m. local time Monday\u2014even as \u2064they\u200c urged attendees to delay their exit to help ease\u2062 traffic. About two hours after \u200bthe mass departure began, \u2063organizers estimated a wait\u200d time of about five hours.<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday morning, wait times had\u200b dropped to between two \u200band \u200cthree hours, according to the official Burning \u2064Man account\u200b on \u200dthe \u200dsocial network X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The annual gathering, which launched on a San Francisco beach\u2062 in 1986, attracts \u200cnearly 80,000 \u2064artists, musicians, and activists for a week-long mix of\u200c wilderness camping\u200b and \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tens-of-thousands-still-stranded-by-burning-man-flooding-in-nevada-desert\/\" title=\"Thousands stranded by flooding at Burning Man in Nevada desert.\">avant-garde performances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The festival \u2064had been closed to vehicles after more than a half-inch \u2064of rain fell Friday, causing flooding\u2064 and \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burning-man-revelers-begin-exodus-after-flooding-left-tens-of-thousands-stranded-in-nevada-desert\/\" title=\"Burning Man attendees leave after floods stranded many in Nevada desert.\">foot-deep mud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The road \u2062closures came \u2063just before the \u2064first of two ceremonial fires signaling an end to the festival was scheduled to begin Saturday night. The event \u200dtraditionally culminates \u2062with the burning of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wait-times-to-exit-burning-man-drop-after-flooding-left-tens-of-thousands-stranded-in-nevada-desert\/\" title=\"Burning Man exit delays decrease after floods strand thousands in Nevada desert.\">large wooden effigy \u200dshaped<\/a> like a man and a wood temple structure during the final two nights, but the fires were\u200d postponed as authorities worked to reopen exit routes by \u200bthe end of the Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers had also asked \u2062attendees not to walk \u200cout of the Black Rock Desert\u200c about 110 miles north of Reno\u2062 during that time as others had\u2063 done throughout the weekend, \u200dincluding DJ Diplo\u200d and comedian Chris Rock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Man\u201d was torched Monday night \u200dwhile the \u2062temple \u2062is \u2063set to go up in flames 8 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The National\u200c Weather\u2064 Service in Reno said some \u200blight rain showers could pass through\u200c Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The event began Aug. \u200d27 and\u200d had been scheduled to end Monday morning, with attendees \u200bpacking up and cleaning up after \u2064themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a \u2063little bit dirty and muddy, but spirits\u2062 are high. The \u200dparty still going,\u201d said Scott London, a Southern California \u200bphotographer, adding that the travel limitations offered \u201ca view \u200bof Burning Man that a lot of us don\u2019t get to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disruptions are part\u2062 of \u2063the event&#8217;s recent history: Dust storms forced organizers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burning-man-ceo-says-there-is-no-cause-for-panic-amid-chaos\/\" title=\"Burning Man CEO assures no need to panic amidst chaos.\">temporarily close entrances<\/a> to the festival\u2062 in 2018, and \u2062the event was\u200c twice canceled altogether during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>At least one fatality has been reported, but organizers said the death\u2063 of a \u2062man in his 40s\u200d wasn&#8217;t \u200dweather-related. The sheriff of nearby Pershing County said he was \u200binvestigating but\u200b has not identified the\u200d man or a cause \u2063of death.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden told\u2064 reporters in Delaware on Sunday that he was aware of the\u200c situation at \u200bBurning Man, including the death, and the\u200c White\u2062 House \u2064was in touch with local \u200dauthorities.<\/p>\n<p>The event is remote on the best \u200cof days\u2062 and emphasizes self-sufficiency. Amid the flooding, revelers were urged to co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the first time were relieved to finally be on their way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2022795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}