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Exodus begins at drenched Burning Man party in US desert

Revelers stuck in the mud for days at the Burning Man festival in Nevada finally began heading home on Monday after heavy rainfall poured on their big party. With the sun now shining on the colorful makeshift community of 70,000 people called Black Rock City, the roads opened Monday afternoon, kicking off the official exit process known as the “Exodus.” “Exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City,” the festival said in a statement […]

Desert rain leaves thousands stranded in muddy mess at Burning Man

Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded Sunday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death. Video footage showed costume-wearing “burners” struggling across the wet gray-brown site, some using trash bags as makeshift boots, while dozens of vehicles became stuck in the sludge. Many events at the counterculture festival, which drew some 70,000 people, were canceled when rain tore down […]