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Heavy Rain at Burning Man Festival Traps 70,000 Attendees, Virus Rumors Circulate
https://redstate.com/ ^ | September 02, 2023 | Brittany Sheehan

Posted on 09/02/2023 6:29:21 PM PDT by Jonty30

The Burning Man Festival is held in the desert of Black Rock City, Nevada. This year's festival opened with a viral video of climate change activists blocking traffic with law enforcement responding.

Now, the controversy has spun into a chaotic scene the festival organizers are declaring a National Emergency. Can a festival declare a National Emergency? That's beside the point right now.

Heavy rains overnight on Friday have transformed the infamously dusty desert site into a muddy mess, trapping over 70,000 attendees. The festival-goers are being instructed to shelter in place and to conserve food and water resources since getting supplies in is not possible as no entry nor exit has been permitted since Friday night. No travelers will be permitted to enter for the remainder of the event, per organizers on Saturday. The pop-up airport known as Black Rock City Municipal Airport has been closed, and only emergency vehicles are allowed to drive.


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To: R_Kangel

They can call it the BM version.


41 posted on 09/02/2023 7:19:15 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Jonty30

A touch of typhus is no problem./s


42 posted on 09/02/2023 7:19:56 PM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: drSteve78

The ‘69 Woodstock was rainy and muddy.


43 posted on 09/02/2023 7:20:25 PM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: dfwgator
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing
44 posted on 09/02/2023 7:21:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: Bullish

That description barely covers it.


45 posted on 09/02/2023 7:21:47 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Mat_Helm

What you are describing can only happen there now by helicopter.

It won’t dry out quickly. This isn’t sand-—IT is PLAYA—
“dry lakes” material.


46 posted on 09/02/2023 7:23:34 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Pure pagan debauchery. Drugs, nudity, promiscuous sex, homosexuality. Prove us wrong. Tell us the redeeming thing that would attract a conservative.


47 posted on 09/02/2023 7:25:10 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
...and not think that every purple hair kid with a nose-ring is a loser.

Problem is, most of those have their minds as closed as a steel drum.

48 posted on 09/02/2023 7:25:32 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: dfwgator

Just enjoy the silence.


49 posted on 09/02/2023 7:30:22 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: ridesthemiles

Oh I know. It dried out a week before the event opened after the remnants of the hurricane 2 weeks ago flooded the site. It took a week to dry out and become drivable again and the event set up began again. The article said the comedian Chris Rock and a few others hicked their way out on foot to the highway about 5 miles away and were picked up. It will take helos to move anything in and out for a week. It will rain again tonight and tomorrow.


50 posted on 09/02/2023 7:31:21 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I don’t understand the conservative revulsion against the Burning Man festival. It teaches self-reliance, self-responsibility, and civic coordination. As a conservative hippie myself, this is on my bucket list.

It's Babylon.

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It attracts salacious headlines for its appearance of iconoclastic self-indulgence – a haven for hedonists, narcissists, exhibitionists and voyeurs.

You can treat it as an eight-day ecstasy-fuelled rave, spinning to the dance music that reverberates morning, noon and night.

You can spend all week in the orgy dome – a 24-hours-a-day “sex-positive consensual space where all can love and be loved”.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1806903/burning-man-festival-nevada

51 posted on 09/02/2023 7:32:36 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: Jonty30

SEND IN ‘BRANDN’!!!


52 posted on 09/02/2023 7:41:16 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Ge0ffrey
Pure pagan debauchery. Drugs, nudity, promiscuous sex, homosexuality. Prove us wrong. Tell us the redeeming thing that would attract a conservative.

That's pretty much every concert there.

53 posted on 09/02/2023 7:47:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Jonty30

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ;)


54 posted on 09/02/2023 7:47:54 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Jonty30

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4179663/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4179708/posts

80% rain and thunder late tonight and tomorrow. Wonder who has the towing contract. How many busses will it take to transport the burners back to Reno? DOH!


55 posted on 09/02/2023 7:52:04 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Jonty30

I’d be more worried about typhus and cholera. Diseases of poor sanitation. They can’t service the porta-potties. The place is a literal s**thole.


56 posted on 09/02/2023 7:54:58 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Jonty30

How could this happen? A small city with no actual infrastructure and no residents with skills other than getting naked and making pithy philosophical pronouncements?


57 posted on 09/02/2023 7:55:50 PM PDT by anton
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

>> I don’t understand the conservative revulsion against the Burning Man festival.

I do understand the progressive sexually immoral doper climatista ATTRACTION to Burning Dope Festival. Maybe that’s why I have a visceral disgust for it.

Then too, I live in the country and practice self-reliance, self-responsibility, and civic participation EVERY DAMN DAY.


58 posted on 09/02/2023 7:56:48 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: ponygirl

Burning when I pee, man.


59 posted on 09/02/2023 7:59:25 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Round Earther; dfwgator

>> That’s an obscure reference

dfwgator’s specialty! :-)


60 posted on 09/02/2023 7:59:33 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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