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Thousands leave Burning Man festival after rain
23ABC News
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9/5/2023
A mass exodus took place in the Nevada desert, where tens of thousands of people were finally allowed to leave the Burning Man festival.
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>> Overnight the giant statue of a man set on fire in the
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Nevada desert signaling the end of burning man festival which
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became a muddy trap for tens of thousands of people 3 months
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worth of rain fell in just hours on the festival making
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roads impassable in the dry Nevada desert for days.
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>> The mud proving to thick for most vehicles to traverse.
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>> Those monsoonal rains that changed everything turning
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this lake bed into a mud pit that traps everything are these
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shoes people but now
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the roads have dried out enough that that exodus has begun its
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stretches across the horizon trucks are these bikes cars.
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It's a mile and a half long.
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>> Yesterday afternoon organizers finally announced
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the main route in and out of the festival was finally
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reopened creating a miles long traffic jam saying it could
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take more than 7 hours to reach the road that leads to the
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nearest town we had to put that trash bags on the shoes in
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order for us to not you know.
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>> I think it feels like a 5 pounds on each leg.
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>> Some walking to the nearest Pave Road 5 miles away hoping
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to hitch a ride.
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>> It did take me like 30 minutes to walk like 40 feet
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because it was so so liquid in the water was sinking, you know
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5, 6 feet in.
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>> Celebrity DJ diplo telling ABC News about his trek with
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a group of celebrities Carly Klaus was their leader we
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walked out with her city Crawford ready Gerber and
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Chris rock.
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>> The musician and comedian Chris rock eventually catching
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a ride with some fans we have like 10 of us jumped in the
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back of his truck and we took us the last 2 miles.
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>> Rihanna Nally ABC News New York.
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