"Too much smiling! Too many bikini tops!"
Posted on 08/29/2017 6:25:49 AM PDT by rktman
Tens of thousands have braved massive traffic jams to get to a remote stretch of Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival.
The highly-anticipated art and music festival runs over nine days from Sunday until September 4 in Black Rock Desert, which is about 120 miles north of Reno.
Black Rock City has been transformed into a 'metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression and self-reliance' where about 70,000 people have descended upon.
In a matter of days, volunteers for the event built what is likely to be the state's busiest airport in the middle of an ancient dry lake-bed.
The airport, formally known as 88NV, is built every year and averages as many as 800 takeoffs and landings a day before it's taken down completely at the end of the event.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ugh. It sounds like something out of Dante’s Inferno.
Burning Man is a great place for Leftist Freaks. It would be such a “shame” if a MOAB was accidentally dropped over the place.
"Too much smiling! Too many bikini tops!"
LET'S BOMB THEM!!!
The airport, formally known as 88NV, is built every year and averages as many as 800 takeoffs and landings a day before it's taken down completely at the end of the event...”
Don't you just love it when numbers are thrown out without any sort of fact checking? But hey, it sounds good.
This is what the Las Vegas Mc Carran airport reports to the FAA -
Aircraft operations: avg 1482/day *
66% commercial
25% air taxi
7% transient general aviation
2% local general aviation
<1% military
* for 12-month period ending 31 December 2016
Hmmm. Well yeah but for a temp strip in the middle of NFW Nevada and a 6 or 7 day event. I’m thinkin’ a 100/day is a fair number. No clue as to just what type of aircraft. G3s?
I propose to my wife back into thousand and five at burning man we went way out to the orange fence and I spelled out in giant 20 foot letters with green tape will you marry me so when she woke up she saw the sign
it was definitely pretty fun and not nearly as corporate or is goofy with all the stupid Silicon Valley people there are now
When we were there Hurricane Katrina hit in the news spread rapidly and I remember one of those aging hippies I think it was Joan Baez got up on top of this big white ship and sang Amazing Grace and Swijg Low Sweet Chariot and it was actually quite surreal
obviously now we have slow motion hurricane / ts Harvey going on here 12 years later
of course with two kids we would never go back now because it’s so goofy and corporate but it was fun at the time
We were able to drive out at night to these cool hot springs under the stars back then. Not allowed now. Also tix we’re like 350$ then
When you would arrive they would check your car for 1water (needed 4 gal per person) and stowaways
They would ask if you had been before
If you said no then they would have you get out and they would do this great “virgin “. Dance. It was cute and nice
No cash transactions we’re allowed. Only ice and coffee we’re available for purchase
Riding around at night on a bicycle was one of the most surreal things you could ever do
Freeregards !
- dogboy
Meanwhile, there’s Houston...which could use a few volunteers to help out.
Not that these aging hippies with delusions of superiority would be much help anyway.
Pagans who require 800 takeoffs and landings a day.
They are against capitalism but without it they could not ‘party’.
I know it says per day in the Brit article but I ain’t buy in’ that many/day.
Not as many liberal socialists as I thought : )
Lol. Prob 98%. But that’s just a swag.
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