JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images Burning Man festival organizers on Monday said they expect attendees to begin leaving the event site by midday after rain and flash flooding trapped more than 70,000 festival-goers in the northwestern portion of the Nevada desert over the weekend.
In a statement , event officials said the main road to enter and exit the site is drying up but remains “a bit too muddy,” with standing water impacting those attempting to navigate out of Black Rock City.
“Exodus is planned to officially begin around noon today, Monday 9/4,” the statement reads. “Expect an update again in the next few hours.”
Burning Man festival, which has attracted up to 100,000 people to the remote area roughly 100 miles away from Reno since the 1980s, describes itself as a “community and global cultural movement” that tests self-sufficiency, promotes radical self-expression, and pinnacles at the end during the burning of […]
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