{"id":6732,"date":"2023-09-05T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/business\/burning-man-organisers-begin-exodus-of-people-trapped-in-desert-mud\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:27:28","slug":"burning-man-organisers-begin-exodus-of-people-trapped-in-desert-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=6732","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man organisers begin \u2018exodus\u2019 of people trapped in desert mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Receive free US updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>We\u2019ll send you a <i>myFT Daily Digest<\/i> email rounding up the latest<!-- --> <!-- -->US<!-- --> news every morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=23bdb5e8-2112-49f8-964a-a194f737193e&amp;concept-id=3e2eb1c1-7ecd-4600-8cbb-c02ba53ced4b\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div data-attribute=\"article-content-body\">\n<p>Organisers of the Burning Man festival have announced an \u201cexodus\u201d of thousands of attendees stranded in the Nevada desert after torrential rains transformed an event that has become a magnet for technology executives, venture capitalists and social media influencers into a \u201cnightmare\u201d of muck and broken toilets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExodus operations have officially begun\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009the driving ban has been lifted,\u201d the organisers of the event in Black Rock City, Nevada said, days after they urged attendees to shelter in place and conserve food and water as deepening mud shut roads away from the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 64,000 people remained on the site on Monday afternoon, with wait times to leave exceeding five hours, according to the organisers.<\/p>\n<p>The burning of a human effigy and temple that culminates the annual event is now planned for Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Pershing County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the local police authority, also said it was investigating the death of Leon Reece, 32, who died at Burning Man on Friday evening. No immediate cause of death could be determined, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<p>News that roads away from the event would reopen as the mud dries ends days of misery for thousands of festival-goers attending what was once the US\u2019s signature counterculture event, but now attracts celebrities alongside older hippies and families. <\/p>\n<p>Burning Man, which began in San Francisco more than three decades ago with a few dozen people witnessing the effigy\u2019s immolation, moved to a barren stretch of the Nevada desert in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>It draws tens of thousands of attendees who travel in trailers or even private aircraft to a \u201cplaya\u201d to witness a dizzying agenda of electronic music and light shows, punctuated by a \u201cMan Burn\u201d and a similar razing of a \u201cChapel of Babel\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Organisers say the event aims to \u201cgenerate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Burning Man aimed to celebrate the animal world and challenge the belief that \u201csomehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, mankind is somehow not part of the animal kingdom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But heavy rains intervened, transforming the normally parched landscape that can accommodate air-conditioned recreational vehicles and campers into a muddy \u201chellscape\u201d, as one attendee described it on TikTok, with broken toilets surrounded by six inches of muck. <\/p>\n<p>Some famous attendees such as comedian Chris Rock and former US solicitor general and current Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal hiked for miles to flee the muck and find road transport to Reno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are having to change their flights and work schedules if they can\u2019t work remote,\u201d Angie Peacock, 44, a holistic health coach from Missouri, told the Financial Times. <\/p>\n<p>The portable toilets have started to work again, but not cleaning facilities, said Peacock, who has not showered in 10 days. Peacock and others in her camp have passed the time with playing music and participating in naked mud runs. <\/p>\n<p>Music executive Bryan Freeman, 54, and his travel partner bought a $94,000 motorhome and drove from Los Angeles to Burning Man, where he celebrated his birthday in the \u201cbeautiful\u201d playa that was lit like Times Square. <\/p>\n<p>But that changed on Friday when the deluge of cold rain brought \u201chorrific\u201d and \u201cmiserable\u201d conditions, he told the FT. <\/p>\n<p>After portable toilets overflowed, rumours of disease surfaced on social media, causing Burning Man\u2019s organisers to state \u201conline rumours of transmissible illnesses in Black Rock City are unfounded and untrue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman\u2019s travel partner had planned to leave by private jet on Monday from the makeshift airport set up by Burning Man, but his flight was postponed to Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>But he said one of the event\u2019s 10 principles, \u201cradical self reliance\u201d, meant most attendees had packed sufficient supplies \u2014 including \u201cenough food and alcohol\u201d to last through Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be back,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cIf you ask people out here what their biggest fear was, it wouldn\u2019t be that something bad is going to happen on the playa\u2009.\u2009.\u2009. It would be that this event goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><experimental><\/experimental><\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/23bdb5e8-2112-49f8-964a-a194f737193e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receive free US updates We\u2019ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US news every morning. 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