Posted on 09/02/2023 12:45:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Burning Man attendees late Friday night were told to ‘shelter in place’ after a storm dumped torrential rain on the playa and turned it into a giant soupy mud pit.
Burning Man is a yearly music and art festival in Northern Nevada in Black Rock City.
An estimated 73,000 people are trapped after a monsoonal storm moved through Black Rock City.
Burning Man attendees referred to as ‘Burners’ prayed to the ‘playa gods’ to make it stop.
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The Gate and airport in and out of Black Rock City remain closed as of Saturday morning.
According to AccuWeather’s Saturday forecast, more rain is on the way to Black Rock City.
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Burning Man conditions are bordering on disaster with over 70,000 people trapped and sheltering-in-place after rains turned the playa into an undrivable mud pit.
On Friday night (Sep. 1), organizers were forced to shut down the festival’s gate and airport, halting access in and out of the playa. All scheduled burns for Friday night were canceled. As of 8 a.m. on Saturday (Sep. 2), the gate and airport remained closed and festival goers were being told to shelter-in-place. People are not being permitted to drive cars or bikes around the festival except for emergency vehicles. With rain in the forecast through Sunday (Sep. 3), Burners were being told to conserve resources.
“If you are in BRC, conserve food and water, shelter in a warm space,” warned festival organizers according to the Reno Gazette Journal. The news site reported that 73,000 people (a larger population than the city of Santa Cruz) are currently at the festival.
A playa is a dry lake... dry sometimes, sometimes not so dry!
The interesting part of this for me is that the Applegate Trail crosses this playa just a few miles east of the Festival.
What is the Applegate Trail you ask?
The Applegate Trail is an alternate route of the Oregon Trail that doesn’t cross the Snake river or require you to raft down the Columbia river - both of which were quite hazardous.
This alternate branches south on the California Trail just west of Pocatello Idaho. You then follow the California Trail southwest to Imlay NV where you turn west then northwest (crossing the Playa), then north for awhile and finally west out of Nevada into northern California. It crosses northern California nearly to I5 where it runs north along the current I5 corridor.
It wasn’t an easy route with challenges like the Playa and mountains along the way - but it was safer than the rivers.
I came east of of Susanville on my motorcycle one time onto the res before turning south on the access road that leads to Gerlach. If I had realized I was that close to the Burning Man site I would have gone and checked it out - off season of course!
My great great grandfather went to the California gold rush, so it was likely that he took the California Trail to get there.
It's neat with all the lights that are going on at night.
Spoken like a doper who has no business on FR.
The greenies tried to tell ‘em and keep ‘em out, but they wouldn’t listen and now they pay the price for pissin’ muvver erf off!
So did I get this right? The fires have been canceled due to flood?
Watch it again.
Pay particular attention to the first few minutes when they are discussing the festival being delayed until next week because of last week's rains.
Nope, but they are out of jail, and the tribal cop is under investigation.
Trent Palmer flew over the sight and posted the video 7 days ago. That is an old video and not current.
Not in Texas-not a good idea at all-especially NOT near Waco-conservatives will not be pleased about anything related to “burning” there-no one has forgotten Bill Cliinton’s pet demon Janet Reno and the carnage she ordered his FBI to perpetrate when they raided the compound of religious cult leader David Koresh, supposedly looking for illegal guns, and were pissed because the cult members would not let them in-so they torched the place and burned women and children to a crisp for no reason but that they could.
Koresh may have been a lunatic, but he apparently was not dangerous, nor were his followers-the whole raid was an atrocious murder of innocent people-crazy is not a crime-so no burning man festival or anything like it around Waco if you don’t want to get on the wrong side of everyone there-find another place that wasn’t the site of a mass slaughter...
I have been saying that...
He could apologize for his language and everyone could move on. Bet the terrorists will avoid sovereign Indian lands in the future!
People have long memories-especially when it comes to jack booted thugs burning women and children to death just for being in a place they wanted to raid...
Hey, thanks for the info! I had no idea. A new word to add to my vocabulary.
The organizers forgot to mention drugs as something else to conserve. More important to the “Burners” than food or water.
Playa is Spanish for beach. In desert locations where they can only dream of a beach, it’s a dry lake.
Too bad no one predicted this, with all the rainy weather we have had. Prayers for the people trapped there. Can army helicopters get them out if it gets worse?
Maybe Maui?
Too soon?
This could be the greatest darwin award nomination ever.
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