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No way in or out of Burning Man after storm
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#132Wacken also had a attendee limit this year due to heavy rain. People who had a ticket were told not to come.
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#133Re: No way in or out of Burning Man after storm
#134Folks, the article is breathless and ridiculous. As someone who is not there, but who has been there four times and run build lead for my camp... Rain is not unheard of. It's probably pretty muddy and less fun than it normally would be. Nobody is starving or dying of dehydration, and there is no danger of that. Most camps (and many people) have a huge surplus of supplies. Last time I was there, I drove out with a few…
That’s fine. Until you consider the inability to empty the portaloos.
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#135We had an Empty Hills festival in Russia like this one. Was it 2009?
A combination of heavy rain, bad soil and bridges being floated away, splitting the event into two.
It resulted in a song how the helpless white collar proletariat lost its self esteem to dirt. Otherwise, was fun.
You had to walk for a mile heels deep through dirt field which featured a stranded UAZ 4x4 van in the middle.
Next year, they built these massive arched wooden bridges and urged people to stay clear of bridge and keep walking, which gave plot for another song.
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#137At BRC now. It sucks. Everything is flooded. The man is not going to burn. There are 2 more days of rain forecasted. My guess is Wednesday when driving will be possible.
> The man is not going to burn
I promise you, the man will burn if the burners are at all dedicated to the cause. Dried wood only soaks a few millimeters of rain unless it's completely submerged for a very long time. Use an accelerant to get it started, and nature will do the rest.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you been to burning man, because it sounds like you have not. Food and water is everywhere. They will not run out unless this thing lasts another week. If some people run out, others will have extra. Of this I am 100% sure.
We're going to run out of water! How? Because of all the rain!
In France, media told us underground water reserves were overflowing after hyping drought for 6 months (tip: if you don’t cherry-pick the stats, there is no more drought than every year). So they argued that drought causes the overflowing of phreatic reserves. Later during the summer we had heavy rains. Now everyone jokes that we have heavy rains due to drought.
Seriously I hope the media will stop preaching in one direction. Today they try to demonstrate GW, but miserably fail at it, since they’re commenting weather and not climate. They’re doing more damage than they solve.
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#139We had an Empty Hills festival in Russia like this one. Was it 2009? A combination of heavy rain, bad soil and bridges being floated away, splitting the event into two. It resulted in a song how the helpless white collar proletariat lost its self esteem to dirt. Otherwise, was fun. You had to walk for a mile heels deep through dirt field which featured a stranded UAZ 4x4 van in the middle. Next year, they built these…
Ha! Are any of these songs on YouTube?
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#140Im curios If this leads long-term to a death of Summer Festivals.