A huge dust storm took hold at Burning Man as revellers were exiting the infamous Black Rock City camp on Monday.
The Daily Star earlier reported that guests were facing delays of up to five hours as the 70,000 festival-goers made the mass exodus out of the Nevada desert while sitting in their own waste.
But now reports suggest a raging dust storm made the revellers’ escape even harder, with one person even saying they were unable to see their hand in front of their face as the dust battered the desert.
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“In the middle of a dust storm while in the exodus line at Burning Man,” wrote one Burner. “Can’t really see my hand in front of our face and covered in dust.”
An SFGate reporter who rocked up to the leaving day of the festival to watch the commuting chaos reiterated the raging dust storm and added “we could barely see five feet in any direction”.
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“We soon lost our bearings, and the wind blew so hard at times that flying specks of dust stung our bare legs,” wrote Ashley Harrell. “There were instances where the dust seemed to hover in the air and we could barely see 5 feet in any direction.
“Then a gust of wind would rip through, blowing all the dust away at high speeds. The storm had started during the temple burn on Sunday night, and showed no signs of abating.”
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The Daily Star previously reported that the desert is now littered with rubbish after guests dumped their stuff and rushed out of the site on Monday, with some still leaving today.
The festival’s rich list are said to have abandoned ship by “flying off in private jets” while the more hard-up revellers “sat in their own poo” in hours-long queues.
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Burners always abandon vehicles, wrecked tents, bikes, and even smelly battered furry costumes as they make their way out of the sun-baked temporary city after getting up to some rather questionable antics during their nine-day erotic extravaganza.
One Burning Man know it all took to X/Twitter to respond to others talking about queuing times to get the hell out of the dusty desert, with one account suggesting it would only take 20 minutes.
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“Travel Time to leave Black Rock City is a lot shorter, if you’re one of the many wealthy billionaires who think they’re entitled to fly straight in and out because they can,” wrote the user. “Whatta sleazy-a** Emissions Festival.”
He later on added these VIPs hop onto private planes while the rest of the normal guests sit in the mess they created – trash, poo and urine. “The wealthiest #BurningMan party people get to fly directly away from a remote desert in a private plane,” he wrote.
“Everyone else can sit in traffic for almost 5 hours, just to get officially out of the place they just trashed. They’re not done trashing it yet & they don’t clean that up”. Read the full story here.
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