Burning Man is closed. Don’t Go.
No really.
“Do not drive to Gerlach, you will be turned around…the [front] gate will remain closed at least until noon PT on Tuesday”.
The storm is upon us, and it’s a killer named Hillary.
Her first victim? Center Camp, looks like a drowning in shallow water…
Images: SFGate, Patrick Reeves via Facebook
In 2014 when we reported on Burning Man’s gate being closed due to inclement weather it made international headline news, rocketing our post and this humble blog to #1 on WordPress. This year, after consecutive years of pandemic closure (where Burning Man happened anyway, just without the Org) followed by a lacklustre influencer-led return to the Playa that saw massive swathes of the city depart before The Man burned…does anyone still care?
Maybe the people spending $10,000 per night on their lavish suites with flushing toilets and showers care. Will this lead to chaos on the way in as thousands of people per hour get backed up? Probably not at this stage, as it’s only people going to set up the camps, stages and art installations. But it sure could lead to problems down the road.
Presumably this mud and lake are not great for the private airline and private jets to the private airport.
Hillary brought half a year’s worth of rain in 6 hours to Palm Springs…fortunately, not during Coachella.
Is this climate change? The result of too few people driving Teslas? Or are the Millenials and Generation Z just too coddled and pussified for Radical Self Reliance to still be a thing?
What’s a bit of mud between friends, anyway?
Featured image credit: water on the Playa creating a lake in 2017, David Calvert/Daily Mail