Burning Man Festival organizers announced that due to heavy rain, the gates and airports in and out of Black Rock (the city temporarily built for the Burning Man Festival each year) will be closed until 10:45 a.m. on September 2. Will stay. hours).local).
Organizers sent an email to announce: “Entry is prohibited. Driving here, except for emergency vehicles, is prohibited until the desert surface dries. Festival attendees are advised to reserve food, water, fuel, and stay in a warm, safe place.” Needed.”
Officials with the Nevada Land Management Agency and the Pershing County Sheriff’s Department have closed all entrances until the end of the festival. The Nevada Land Management Agency announced on September 2: “Those traveling to the festival should return home. It has been raining for the past 24 hours, causing officials to close all vehicles in this desert area ”
Heavy rain overnight turned the Nevada desert into a giant mud puddle. Photo: LA Times
Campsites at the Burning Man festival were filled with mud after rain on September 1. Photo: CNN
radio cnn Describes ankle-deep mud. Hannah Burhorn, who attended the festival for the first time, told the station cnn The desert sand has turned into thick mud and there are puddles and mud everywhere, he said in a phone interview on September 2.
People wrap garbage bags and food bags around their shoes, while many walk barefoot. “At this point it was inevitable,” Hannah Burhorn said. “The mud was on top of the truck, inside the truck. People tried to run through the mud and got stuck in ankle-deep mud.”
The National Weather Service said rain and thunderstorms will occur on the evening of September 2 and continue throughout the day on September 3, with temperatures ranging from a high of 21 °C to an overnight low of more than 9 °C.
According to Mr. Mark Deutschendorf, a specialist with the National Weather Service office in Reno, at least 1.27 cm of rain fell from the morning of September 1 to the morning of September 2 in many areas next to the festival.
Organizers said 1,524 cm to more than 2 cm of rain fell overnight in Black Rock City. Mr Deutschendorf warned: “There could be another round of persistent rainfall from the evening of September 2 to September 3 before stopping completely on the evening of September 3.”
The area became muddy due to heavy rain during the Burning Man 2023 festival. Photo: LA Times
cnn He said there is a flood warning for northeastern Nevada, east of Black Rock City.
The weather of this year’s Burning Man Festival is completely different from last year. Last year the temperature was more than 40 degrees Celsius.
according to the newspaper Reno Gazette JournalMore than 73,000 people attended this year’s Burning Man festival from August 28 to September 5. However, radio cnn It is not clear how many of them are stranded.
The festival has been held annually in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada since 1986 and lasts one week (from the last Monday in August to the first Monday in September).
This festival is called Burning Man because people burn wooden statues of people.
