Burning Man revelers walk around swamped Nevada desert BAREFOOT with just tins of tuna to eat – as 73,000 are stranded and one person dies
- The portable toilets on the festival site also aren’t being cleaned or emptied because service trucks cannot reach them – creating ‘foul’ conditions
- Campers have had their tents and structures breached due to the pouring rain, leaving many people tired, wet, and muddy
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.
Burning Man is set on the prehistoric Lake Lahontan, which is a dry lakebed – known colloquially as the playa. The ground is made up of an alkaline dust, which normally leaves people coughing with ‘playa lung.’
But with the rain this year, the saturated dust has created an elaborate game of stuck-in-the-mud for scantily-clad music lovers.
One clip, posted by a festivalgoer, showed a jeep half-buried in the sinking clay and mud – completely unable to move after being trapped in the sludge.
Christine Lee, who attended the festival with her friends, said that they are walking around in the sinking sand with their bare feet because their shoes keep getting stuck.
They recorded themselves trawling through the horrendous conditions barefoot on Sunday morning.
Lee also said: ‘We are not allowed out of the playa, the gates are locked. We have enough tuna for a week, so we’re okay. All of our structures have fallen down.’
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Burning Man is a mess. Upward of 60,000 people are literally stuck in mud and have been ordered to stay put.
Food and water running low. pic.twitter.com/HKRZSwkTCY
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 2, 2023
Burning Man looks bad now but there are still enough drugs so people are staying calm
Once the drugs try up we will see a full-on panic
Coming down off a week-long drug binge to find yourself stuck in the desert with no food, water, toilets or showers sounds close to hell
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) September 3, 2023
