Burning Man revellers begin exodus after flooding left tens of thousands stranded in Nevada desert

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Muddy roads flooded by a summer storm that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at the Burning Man counterculture festival had dried up enough by Monday afternoon to allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.

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00:00 A return home with a taste of defeat. Thousands of people have left the Burning Man Festival

00:06 with their vehicles, a massive event that this year has been bogged down by heavy rains

00:11 in the Nevada desert, trapping more than 70,000 participants in rivers of mud for three days.

00:18 With the rain and everything, I`m really glad I didn`t bring my vehicle now, because with

00:21 the mud it would have been - yeah. But the roads dried up quite well, so I`m really impressed

00:26 with how fast everything is moving.

00:29 So not everyone`s fled Black Rock City, Burning Man`s a counterculture festival, and there

00:34 are many different views on the same events.

00:36 You know, there was a brief double rainbow. It provided us with a lot of energy. The people

00:42 in our camp were very generous. Those with RVs invited us in when it was - you know,

00:49 when we went out. And I don`t know, my feet are dry and I`m warm, so I`m happy.

00:56 Well, I got a cold. But other than that, I`ve been having a really good past couple of days.

01:02 If I didn`t have the cold and I didn`t have a friend who I was hoping to give a better

01:08 Burning Man experience to, I think this would have been my best couple of nights at Burning

01:11 Man.

01:12 The one-week event, which began on a San Francisco beach in 1986, attracts some 80,000 artists,

01:18 musicians and activists, a real logistical challenge for organizers.

01:23 [Whoosh]

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