“just walked 5 miles in the mud out of burning man with chris rock and a fan picked us up,” Diplo wrote. In a video posted by the music producer Diplo on Saturday evening on X, formerly known as Twitter, he can be seen leaving the festival with the comedian Chris Rock and others on the back of a vehicle. On Sunday afternoon, a White House official said that President Biden had been briefed on the situation and that administration officials were in touch with state and local officials.Īccounts of the mud and efforts to leave ricocheted across social media and became something of a sensation in itself. “Burners aren’t victims,” he said, using the name that attendees are known by.īut the authorities were investigating the death of one participant, and the worsening conditions on Sunday - it was raining harder in the afternoon than on the previous two days - could delay people leaving the event, which ends Monday and in normal conditions causes a lengthy traffic backup. He added that “when it’s time to leave, we’ll leave.”

“Burning Man is an all-weather state of mind,” Star Heartsong, 43, a tech entrepreneur who came from Austin, Texas, had said earlier. True to form, some were taking it in stride. It was an unusual turn of events that tested the resolve of participants, who were told to conserve food and water, at the more than three-decade-old festival that prides itself on grit and self-reliance and normally battles excessive heat and, sometimes, excessive partying. The announcement marked the second postponement of the burn, which had been initially slated for Saturday night. The torrential rains that turned roads and grounds into muck and left thousands of people stranded at the Burning Man festival also put off the climax of the carefree celebration of art, music and counterculture: The annual burning of a manlike figure did not happen on Sunday night as had been planned.Ī social media account associated with the Burning Man Project’s website said the burn would instead happen on Monday night, adding that the muddy conditions and rain had made moving heavy and fire safety equipment to the site unfeasible. Update: Some Burning Man attendees may get to leave on Monday.

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