BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada: Burning Man organizers reopened the road leading out of the remote Nevada desert festival on Monday (Sep 4), allowing tens of thousands of attendees to escape after they h
But many of the 64,000 people who remained on site as of Monday may choose to stay one more night and watch the festival's giant namesake effigy go up in flames on Monday night, one day past schedule.turned the week-long, annual counterculture arts festival into a muddy nightmare.
"It really looked apocalyptic," said festival volunteer Evi Airy."When you see the people walking barefoot in such a cold with the children. Some people have a small child here like three years old, four years old. I don't know how they survived." For days, up to 70,000 people were ordered to stay put and conserve food and water as officials closed the roads, requiring vehicles to stay put. One person died at the event, officials said on Sunday, providing few details. An investigation was under way.Even before the gate was officially open, campers started leaving while it was still dark.
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