This is going to be fun to watch. It's gonna turn into Lord of the Flies over there. I hope they film it for a future docuseries. 50,000 people out of their heads stuck in the mud for days.
I guess Elizabeth Holmes will be missing this event. In related news the Frye Festival is on for 2024. I cannot believe there are suckers who would buy tickets to this event.
Posts: 17747 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015
Nobody can leave by driving out, reportedly it is impossible, it is like a thick peanut butter texture on the ground. Nearly 70,000 attendees, stuck, low on food and water, some water supplies reported to be compromised by the mud. Porta Potties have not been serviced in days. Temps at night in the mid 50s, how many revelers brought the proper gear? Forecast is more rain and thunderstorms for tomorrow and early Monday, thus delaying departure even more days. Helicopter in more food and water for tens of thousands? Water and food borne poisoning, hyperthermia, human waste mixing into the mud...I dunno... I think people are kinda screwed here, unless they hike out and leave their belongings behind.
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Posts: 17674 | Location: Texas | Registered: May 13, 2003
The whole ethos of the event is radical self reliance. Now they’re getting their chance. The tech bros in their luxury camps looking to gawk and party in a drug fueled stupor are getting a cold slap of reality from nature. Don’t fuck around in the desert.
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The book was better: Then God rains sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground (Genesis 19:24–25).
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Posts: 4694 | Location: Eastern PA-Berks/Lehigh Valley | Registered: January 03, 2001
With luck the "celebrities and influencers" will be the first to succumb. Possible chance they will start eating their own so hopefully much more rain on the way. Being unprepared and unknowing of desert survival skills will be a cruel fate. Buh bye!
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Posts: 3006 | Location: See der Rabbits, Iowa | Registered: June 12, 2007
Who gets to clean up the site once everyone is gone? Trash, piss & shit everywhere.
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Posts: 9460 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
Despite well-documented, collective efforts to pack out everything that participants bring in, an element of debris remains. The clean-up crew still finds random sofas, bicycles, or an abandoned camp now and then. Teams also remove things that escaped the attention of some participants like oil drips from vehicles, or bark and wood splinters from wood piles. Another growing issue is abandoned tent stakes left in the ground after failed attempts to remove them. Certain methods help pry up items that some participants simply don’t know about. Education is the obvious solution. Either way, as the event must meet very high standards for restoring the playa to its pristine state, the DPW is ultimately responsible to make it happen.
I suspect this seriously understates the effort. It will be worse this year, as much of the trash, etc., will be entombed in dried-up, solidified mud. So DPW (Department of Public Works?) takes it on the chin, which means the taxpayer. All because people aren't responsible enough to haul out what they hauled in.
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Posts: 9460 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
1/2” of rain on a dry clay desert probably is a big deal.
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Originally posted by 229DAK: So DPW (Department of Public Works?) takes it on the chin, which means the taxpayer. All because people aren't responsible enough to haul out what they hauled in.
I don’t believe DPW refers to a taxpayer funded entity in this case. The way I read it, the costs are born by the participants.
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