Burning Man.
As much as we like to think our own AfrikaBurn shares a kindred spirit in one-love desert-festival vibes, the amount of people that mission to the temporary city in Nevada – affectionately known as “Playa” – is phenomenal.
Like, 70 000 people phenomenal – check the fashion.
So you can only imagine what traffic must be like on exit.
It’s actually so bad that Burning Man has its own Twitter account for traffic – and it was needed more than ever this time around.
You see, on Sunday, a teenager went missing. In light of this, the Burning Man officials stopped traffic to search for her. Although she was later found wandering around the Playa, she caused the traffic to be delayed by nine hours.
NINE HOURS.
People were pretty bleak, and spent their time tweeting pics of the situation:
Burning Man ended yesterday, 5 September.
Having begun on 28 August, that’s a long time to be in the desert. And now you have to sit in traffic.
Let’s just hope the kids have enough petrol to get home.
A recent snapshot from the Burning Man Traffic Twitter account showed this:
Oooph, if that doesn’t put you off…then this might:
Vandals attacked a specific camp at the festival, cutting power lines, gluing trailer doors shut and flooding it with 200 gallons (757 litres) of water. They targeted the White ocean camp last week, after many were outraged at the exclusive luxury camp’s “parasite class” full of tech entrepreneurs and tourists.
The organisers were of course bleak. It meant they no longer had access to electricity or Internet. Writing a statement on Facebook:
This year has been quite the challenge for our camp. We have felt like we’ve been sabotaged from every angle, but last night’s chain of events, while we were all out enjoying our beautiful home, was an absolute and definitive confirmation that some feel we are not deserving of Burning Man.
Nonetheless, with open hearts and immense love for what we bring to Burning Man, we will absolutely not let this pathetic violation stop what we came here to do,
We came here to unite people through music and love. We came here to inspire and we came here to live and let live.
That’s a lot of name calling there. Read the post and its comments for a more weightier opinion.
