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2023-09-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-
1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-03 03:22|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 From the description of the mud, it's going to be pretty rough to get out at any ruts you'ceding into, once it dries.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2023-09-03 06:13||   2023-09-03 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Caliche clay. The worst.

Burning Man descends into chaos as one person DIES at flooded festival after officials closed gates, 'trapping' 73,000 revelers in hypothermic conditions - and told them to conserve water and food
Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-03 08:08||   2023-09-03 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Portents and Signs?
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-09-03 08:28||   2023-09-03 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Having experienced that clay (not at Burning Man, mind you), I will guess that there will be a number of perminately stuck vehicles, structures and trailers that might forever be a monument to mankind's stupidity on that supposedly hallowed plain.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-09-03 08:55||   2023-09-03 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Concerts and cruises...sorry, not for me.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-03 09:59||   2023-09-03 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Since the weather guessers all had this rain event highlighted and were pissing their pants on the amount of rain a d the fallout from it 24-7 on tv and radio, pardon me if my giveashit for these people is somewhere below the Titan victims. They even had eco-terrerists blocking the road; so evidently even those losers knew what was about to happen.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-09-03 10:16||   2023-09-03 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't ride their bikes?! Oh noz!
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-09-03 10:19||   2023-09-03 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it wrong for my schadenfreud meter to be pinned?
Posted by AlanC 2023-09-03 10:31||   2023-09-03 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 City types like "roughing it." Until it actually gets rough...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-03 10:40||   2023-09-03 10:40|| Front Page Top

#10 a number of permanately stuck vehicles, structures and trailers that might forever be a monument to mankind's stupidity on that supposedly hallowed plain.

Sorta like Cadillac Ranch, but stupider.

Posted by SteveS 2023-09-03 11:06||   2023-09-03 11:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Life Finds a Way, or, And to Think That I Saw It on Rothermere's Sheet

They murdered poor Gaia -- good gravy! --
To roll in a mudhole. Well, maybe
You'd call that a fail,
But tattooed LA whale
Dirty D had some Persian girl's baby!
Posted by Omeamp Ebbeans8211 2023-09-03 11:50||   2023-09-03 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, you wanted to get back to nature. Experience nature!
Nature doesn't give a flying frak about your comfort, how much that cost, how much work it was, or when you gotta be back at work.
Nature don't care!
Posted by ed in texas 2023-09-03 13:09||   2023-09-03 13:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I guess worshipping Gaia comes with no guarantees...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-03 14:50||   2023-09-03 14:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Looked like it rained again today. They are screwed.
Posted by Remoteman 2023-09-03 16:37||   2023-09-03 16:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Perhaps they should elect a mayor and settle in for the long haul.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-03 16:46||   2023-09-03 16:46|| Front Page Top

#16 I was just out there and it's fine. Very mellow. Also, I'm in Gerlach right now and it's very mellow. You're being fed a line of bullshit by the media becuase they are hoping for a catastrophe. But having to walk to get a cocktail instead of hoping an art car isn't one.
Posted by Secret Master  2023-09-03 18:22||   2023-09-03 18:22|| Front Page Top

#17 Glad it's better than being reported, SM. That's kind of out in the boonies if someone had a medical emergency and they couldn't get to them out of there.

That type of gathering is not my cup of tea, but I'm just an old guy suffering from toxic masculinity.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-09-03 19:02||   2023-09-03 19:02|| Front Page Top

#18 ^Thank MR. I live out here, and getting to Reno's hospitals usually requires a medivac flight or a 1.5 hour drive. But we do have paramedics, EMTs, and two former military nurses who help out as needed.

It's hard to explain Burner culture to on outsider. But, basically, it's deliberately not serious, rather surreal, and in practice doesn't have a lot to do with the ongoing culture war.
Posted by Secret Master  2023-09-03 19:21||   2023-09-03 19:21|| Front Page Top

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