Burning Man revellers begin desert exodus after flooding left thousands stranded
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Thousands of partygoers stranded for days at the Burning Man festival have begun their exodus from the Nevada desert as conditions that left roads impassable finally eased.
Burning Man organisers said they began to let traffic flow out of the main road around 2pm local time on Monday - even as they continued to ask revellers to delay their exit to Tuesday to ease traffic.
As of Monday afternoon, they said about 64,000 people remained at the festival site.
Organisers also asked attendees not to walk out of the Black Rock Desert about 110 miles north of Reno as others had done throughout the weekend, including celebrity DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock. They did not specify why.
The festival had been closed to vehicles after more than a half an inch of rain fell on Friday, turning the site into a quagmire.
The road closures came just before “the Man” was to be set ablaze on Saturday night.
The event traditionally culminates in the torching of the large wooden effigy shaped like a man and a wooden temple structure during the final two nights, but the fires were postponed to Monday night as authorities worked to reopen exit routes.
While some festivalgoers were revelling in the mud, others told of their exasperation.
Faye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she has been left “covered in mud for the past three days”.
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Burning Man organisers said they began to let traffic flow out of the main road around 2pm local time on Monday - even as they continued to ask revellers to delay their exit to Tuesday to ease traffic.
As of Monday afternoon, they said about 64,000 people remained at the festival site.
Organisers also asked attendees not to walk out of the Black Rock Desert about 110 miles north of Reno as others had done throughout the weekend, including celebrity DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock. They did not specify why.
The festival had been closed to vehicles after more than a half an inch of rain fell on Friday, turning the site into a quagmire.
The road closures came just before “the Man” was to be set ablaze on Saturday night.
The event traditionally culminates in the torching of the large wooden effigy shaped like a man and a wooden temple structure during the final two nights, but the fires were postponed to Monday night as authorities worked to reopen exit routes.
While some festivalgoers were revelling in the mud, others told of their exasperation.
Faye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she has been left “covered in mud for the past three days”.
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