An unusual summer storm turned the Burning Man festival into a sloppy mess in the Nevada desert.
An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert.Organizers closed the festival to vehicles after one death was reported. Officials provided no details of the fatality.
For the Reno area, which is about 141 miles south of the festival, the average rainfall for the whole month of September would be 0.21 inches, Deutschendorf said. With their party closed to motorized traffic, attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or with plastic bags on their feet. Revelers were urged to conserve supplies of food and water, and most remained hunkered down at the site.Celebrity DJ Diplo posted a video to Instagram on Saturday evening showing him and comedian Chris Rock riding in the back of a fan's pickup truck. He said they had walked six miles through the mud before hitching a ride.
"We have not witnessed any negativity, any rough times," organizer Theresa Galeani said. "Some people ... were supposed to leave a few days ago, so they're out of water or food. But I am an organizer, so I went around and found more water and food. There is more than enough here for people. We just have to get it to everyone."
"I'm not leaving until both 'The Man' and 'The Temple' burn," Barger said, referring to the wooden effigy and wooden structure that are traditionally torched during the event's last two nights.
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