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Burning Man festival: Revelers begin exodus from campsite after roads reopened
FRANCE 24 English
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9/5/2023
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Up in smoke in a ceremonial fire,
00:03
a giant effigy called the Man is torched
00:06
in a pyrotechnic display in the Nevada desert
00:09
to end the week-long annual counterculture
00:12
Burning Man Arts Festival.
00:14
Thousands of people were not there to see it.
00:17
They drove out en masse after being stranded in mud for days.
00:21
With the rain and everything,
00:23
I'm really glad I didn't bring my vehicle now
00:24
because with the mud it would have been,
00:26
yeah, but the roads dried up quite well,
00:29
so I'm really impressed with how fast everything is moving.
00:32
Festival goers were caught off guard
00:34
when torrential rainfall turned the normally dry desert
00:37
into rivers of mud, making the roads impassable.
00:41
There was two or three months' worth of rain in a matter of hours.
00:45
Officials on Monday said the weather had cleared up enough
00:47
so people could head home.
00:49
For some, heading out was an ordeal.
00:54
I got trapped in the mud and everything was shut down
00:56
and getting out was a nightmare.
00:58
But this morning we were digging,
00:59
we were on our hands and knees
01:00
digging mud out of our tires.
01:03
Burning Man is the world's largest counterculture festival.
01:07
Every year, tens of thousands of people
01:08
gather in the middle of the Nevada desert
01:10
to see installation art and participate in dance parties
01:14
in what's billed as an undefinable event.
01:17
Tickets cost hundreds of dollars.
01:19
The event is remote on the best of days.
01:22
There is an emphasis on self-sufficiency.
01:25
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