Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
You have to laugh … I remember Glastonbury, up to my knees in mud - it’s all part of the fun. Having said that, it’s unlikely turn into a survival situation in a field in Somerset, so not really that comparable …
I'm stuck here in the sex orgy tent.....send help........
but not too quickly, take your time.
I tried doing sex acts in water, mud and on the beach. All of them sounds kinky and sexy but in reality are uncomfortable and literally unhygenic.
The beach is also very prone to get really, i mean really, uncomfortable.
Help is cumming.
Thread is giving me oglaf comic vibes
So are the cookers
Fake. Lemmy users don't leave their houses ever.
Joke's on you. He took his house with him.
We're here to save you from the virgins, Lancelot...
A quite apt metaphor of Man drowning in problems that can't just be burned away.
I have friends that help out on the safety crew. I hope everyone stays safe.
Do they burn a new man every year or do they burn the same person annually?
It's short for "Burning Manny". There's one guy, Manuel Asada, and they burn him every year. It's cool though, he's into it.
Do you mean this guy? https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Manny_Garcia
I have so Manny questions....
It’s like a roast. His friends give him sick burns all evening one night a year.
It’s short for “Burning Manny”. There’s one guy, Manuel Asada, and they burn him every year. It’s cool though, he’s into it.
What's the story behind this? Who is Manuel Asada?
I’ve been to burning man, but even I can’t help but laugh a little bit at this… you wanted “radical self-reliance”? You got it.
But they didn't really want radical self reliance. They wanted the Medieval Times version of radical self reliance.
The "news" is bullshit. I've got friends there right now and they're fine. A little muddy and wet but nobody is in danger.
I'm so annoyed with our "news" lately (and by lately I mean years). It's so fucking sensational and fear inducing it just makes me sick.
News told me LA was underwater and it was the end of days. Friends there told me some places had some flash flooding and it sucks, but overall it blew over.
NYC had that flooding a couple years back and I was going on a trip there and the news was literally warning people of how bad it was. I got there and it was literally like nothing happened.
Here in Seattle my relatives tell me they STILL hear about CHAZ/CHOP. Like asking if I'm safe. It was 3 YEARS AGO and lasted a few days! I literally walked through that park a couple days ago, but they're terrified of it out here.
I hate the people who claim conspiracy everywhere, but there is a clear profit motive to keep us afraid and clicking refresh on news sites. I'm freaking tired of it.
Don't cut yourself on that edge kid
Burning Man turning into Fyre Festival. Time is a circle.
What is burning Man? I know it's a festival of some sorts that's done in a desert, but that's about all I know.
What happens there?
Rich people travel 1000+ kilometres to gather around and pretend to be not rich and just like common folks! This is my understanding as someone who isn't american.
Also drugs. Lots of drugs.
Burning Man was an amazing event when I stumbled across it on the internet in the late 90's. I must have been 14 or 15, it used to be a real "go experience, experiment and find yourself" setting. It's since gone the way of SXSW. It totally goes against what it was intended for.
That's what it is today. Use to be more underground and subversive, even if it took money to be involved.
Burning Man is a festival celebrating creative expression. No one there is pretending to not be rich
Watch Malcolm In The Middle, season 7 episode 1 "Burning Man". It'll give you a fair approximation.
Love that episode, my personal highlight, cracks me up every time.
It started as a bunch of hippies in California decided to travel to the desert and do a week long festival (party) that was for expressing art, living care free, and being self-reliant. You brought everything with you when you came, and you took everything out when you left, leave nothing behind. Over time it has grown bigger and bigger, there are other smaller instances all over the country. The smaller ones still have a lot of the original vibe. The main one still has it, but now a lot of tourists go just to party, do drugs, and have sex. Yes, a lot of the artists have a lot of money, people talking about rich people, it was never about money or not having it. It was about living carefree.
I've come around. Us internet dwellers should take it easy on the judgment and cynicism about this festival.
People take the internet too seriously these days. Let the festival people have fun.
Now its Muddy Man Festival
Who would think an old lake bed in the middle of a flash flood prone desert might be an issue
More like "Drowned Man" this year.
The biggest celebration of capitalism I've ever seen.😒
This looks like a pithy truism but it really just sounds idiotic. You ever been to, like, a trade show?
Burning man is far from perfect but it's a step in the right direction.
Clearly you've never been to a shareholders meeting.
"Scott, I told you your rain dance pavilion was gonna get people hurt, man!"
How do they find a man who is willing to be burned?
Nature is healing.
What now? How is water in a Desert "Natur is healing" ?
Burning man is held on the playa.
A playa is a dried-up lake.
This year, the playa is becoming a lake.
Nature is healing.
Jokes that appear to have gone over your head aside, deserts are usually dry. In a lot of examples, a sudden flood happens, but the desert is dry the other 99% of the time.
I'm not making the argument that our climate is neither fucked nor unpredictable as a result, but what point were you trying to make?
Just like this years Wacken.
that's whack
Money does not solve disasters like this
You mean they're not gonna be able to innovate their way out of this one? :(
Really though this is looking like it's about to turn into a legitimate humanitarian crisis somehow???
Climate change? Fucking duh, we've known that for decades. How are people surprised?
Rich people's problem
From what I've read, most of the people there aren't rich and are pretty normal, ordinary people. The rich probably aren't having issues with this because of how extravagant their camps tend to be. It's the normal people who are in trouble.
Festival goers are the rich now?
👍
Burning money.
This is all rich peoples problems now in a pointless and drug induced search for some form of fulfillment, but just another festival chaser with money.
I don't know whether you're referring to just the attendees or the artists as well, but I have a group of friends presenting an installation this year (Conversations With A Squad), they're middle-class for the most and do this out of sheer passion.
Now I cannot assure you with the utmost certainty that drugs won't be involved at all
All I can picture is hundreds of artists designing some of the weirdest and coolest escape vehicles we have ever seen. I hope everyone is safe and not stuck for too long, but the creative ingenuity has got to be next-level with that crowd.
LOL, bunch of boomer types spending stupid money to be stuck in the mud. There's got to be a parable there.
It’s Saturday, only losers leave before the man burns (Saturday night). If this keeps up through late Sunday then it might start to be a problem. If anything this will keep out straggling weekenders.
The weather-related disruptions have caused suspension of the cleaning and emptying of thousands of portable toilets. Event organizers have said more rain was expected through Sunday before the festivals ends on Monday.
Uh…
The man won’t burn. It is way to wet. It’s now “wet man festival”.
This sounds nightmarish. People will start avoiding the portable toilets and it will be even worse.
Radical inclusion now includes cholera
I legitimately hope no one gets hurt but I couldn't resist
Rain outs like this are pretty common at these festivals. The difference here is that I guess it is a bit harder to leave and more remote? I'd say 20% of the festivals I've been to have had some degree of mud issue resulting in some degree of infrastructure breakdown.
Burning Man is in a dry alkali lakebed way out in the middle of nowhere. Normally it's extremely hot and dry the entire time, the ground isn't dirt but a very fine powder that blows everywhere. When it rains that fine powder turns into this incredibly sticky mud and it becomes extremely difficult to move. It's quite a bit different than your standard muddy field kind of experience.
Yeah, this bit stood out for me also!
Woodstock 99 energy
Or Fyre Festival
Last time I was out there just because I couldn't find a toilet I just squatted. Of course dig and bury if it's shit. But Def need to walk a ways from the camps if it's still wet.