Burning Man access is closed as heavy rains muddy the playa
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Attendees are stuck until the mud dries enough to leave.
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    Nobody can go in or out of Burning Man after heavy rainfall on Friday turned the desert floor of the playa into impassible, sticky mud, prompting the Festival’s organizers late last night to ask as many as 70,000 attendees to shelter in place (via SFGate).

    Organizers reposted a similar message to the Burning Man Traffic account on X (formerly Twitter) around 12PM ET today.

    The Bureau of Land Management released a statement on Saturday saying festival officials and the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office “have closed ingress to the Burning Man event effective immediately and for the remainder of the event,” as quoted in the Reno Gazette Journal, and the bureau added that “more rain is expected over the next few days,” saying conditions weren’t expected to improve enough to allow for driving on the playa.

    Journalist Scott Budman, who reports for NBC in the San Francisco Bay Area, posted a video filmed by Josh Keppel at Burning Man, showing the still-wet and muddy grounds and people walking through it:

    User angiepeacockmsw reported that while activities are shut down, it’s not a Hunger Games scene as they speculate some might be picturing:

    A montage posted by user Shoddy Lyn has people partying with bags on their feet; mud-covered boots; and panoramas of the playa:

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