BLACK ROCK CITY (Nevada) — Burning Man organisers reopened the road leading out of the remote Nevada desert festival on Monday (Sept 4), allowing tens of thousands of attendees to escape after they had been trapped for days by mud.
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.
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. The way out is an 8km dirt road to the nearest highway. Photos shared online showed hefty recreational vehicles sunk up to the tire rims in mud, with some using boards under the wheels to help get traction.
Videos posted to social media showed costumed revellers — including a few children — sliding through the sticky mess, most of them covered from head to toe in wet earth.
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