Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.
The gate and airport into Black Rock City, a remote area in northwest Nevada, remain closed and no driving is allowed into or out of the city except for emergency vehicles, the organizers said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Do not travel to Black Rock City! Access to the city is closed for the remainder of the event, and you will be turned around,” one statement read.
The city is expecting more showers and thunderstorms on Sunday before 5 p.m. local time, organizers said in a weather forecast update.
I used to experience mild FOMO reading about burning man and now it just feels like I’ve passed an annual intelligence test with apathy.
I don’t need 80,000 people, weeks worth of planning, shit weather, a long boring drive, and 1000s of dollars in expenses to have fun doing drugs with my friends. The entire thing seems so inefficient and unpleasant in achieving its purpose.
And I’ve always found the art of burning man to be simply bad, no matter how impressive it is in scale.
That said, I want humans to celebrate and have fun; there’s worse things people can do.
I feel like burning man and other fests were not better, but at least cognitively different before they went corporate. / Feels like the difference between clubs and raves (if the latter even still exist any longer)
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It was cool 25 years ago when I first went, but it was lame 10 years ago, when I last went. Hollywood, tech bros and instagram posers ruined it.
uhhhh, seems bad