Posted on 09/04/2023 4:32:48 AM PDT by Morgana
Burning Man revelers have been forced to walk around the swamped playa barefoot and survive on tins of tuna after a washout saturated the dry ground.
Torrential rains overwhelmed the Nevada desert, turning the dust into clay - meaning that 73,000 revelers are trapped until the landscape dries up. One person died in the ordeal, it was reported on Saturday.
Festivalgoers dealing with the treacherous conditions in Black Rock City have also ditched their shoes that keep getting stuck in the mud - while they desperately conserve their food and water supplies.
The portable toilets on the festival site also aren't being cleaned or emptied because service trucks cannot reach them - creating 'foul' conditions in the playa.
Campers have had their tents and structures breached due to the pouring rain, leaving many people tired, wet, and muddy.
But it's not all doom and gloom. The hedonistic crowds are making the most of the situation by organizing slip-and-slides and enjoying the characteristically psychedelic atmosphere during the extended festivities.
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Normal brisk walking pace is 3 mph.
“The portable toilets on the festival site also aren’t being cleaned or emptied because service trucks cannot reach them - creating ‘foul’ conditions in the playa. “
It’s kind of cool that they get to see the post-nuclear world if the Neocons are not stopped in Ukraine.
The problem with walking to the highway is that some areas along the walk are deep mud.
If you have appropriate mud boots it would be ok—but if not it is big trouble...
The are privileged white kids and yuppies doing a trendy cool thing. Something off the bucket list "Dude, have you been to a burning man yet?"
I used to work with one of their “year-round staff”. He was one of the biggest dipsh!ts I’ve ever met. He goes by the name Soup and he’s their Associate Director of Product and Design. I swear he was micro-dosing at work. Glad they got rid of him.
6 miles is 27 holes of golf.
That was mighty white of him.
Not surprised Chris Rock did that. He can think for himself. Just watch some of his old videos such as "How not to get your @$$ kicked by the Police".
Yes. But that mud will drag on you. Maybe in shorts and barefoot you can still make decent time. A file of people will definitely bog down as the head of the file churns up the clay. Walking abreast a group should do okay.
This is the LAST Burning Man ritual! Once it was a symbol of the Counter Culture—not its just too mainstream.
They got to live a taste of limate change policy success. Hurray!
I am very happy all of those mud-stuck RVs and campers and cars slowly crawling their way out of the mud and spilled sewage after their fun in the sterile (formerly pristine) isolated desert wilderness are using only electric vehicles and solar-powered batteries to make their way home to their air-conditioned million dollar homes.
Walking barefoot three 3 eyed shrimp. YUCK!
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