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Burning Man quickly turning into a humanitarian disaster.
September 03, 2023, 08:36 PM
wrightdBurning Man quickly turning into a humanitarian disaster.
I imagine for some of them they're enjoying the misery, at least until it gets a little past real.
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Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster September 03, 2023, 08:52 PM
V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
If they run out of condoms and Narcan, we’ll have a real crisis on our hands.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים September 03, 2023, 11:13 PM
JoseyWales2quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Sounds like they're getting a taste of what life in the trenches in WWI was like.
I was thinking more like Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester (10 inches a week for a month) and Okinawa, but your point is also well taken.
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September 03, 2023, 11:18 PM
Balzé Halzéquote:
Originally posted by JoseyWales2:
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Sounds like they're getting a taste of what life in the trenches in WWI was like.
I was thinking more like Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester (10 inches a week for a month) and Okinawa, but your point is also well taken.
You may be closer to the mark. I just happen to watch "They Shall Not Grow Old" last night so WWI was simply fresh on my mind.
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September 04, 2023, 07:20 AM
sgalczynMuahahahah...................couple eons from now archaeologists will find the petrified remains and only imagine the species that went extinct.............
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September 04, 2023, 11:06 AM
bendableWhere are all those Gelander wagons when you need them ?
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September 04, 2023, 11:48 AM
PASigThis guy said screw it, I’m outta here
https://x.com/brendanmcogbill/...524763994378240?s=46
September 04, 2023, 12:30 PM
stoic-onequote:
This guy said screw it, I’m outta here
The entry steps are down on that trailer, oops.
September 04, 2023, 12:56 PM
rat2306This article mentions that organizers, etc. hope that the situation improves around noon local time today but ask folks to delay leaving until tomorrow.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...sand-mud/ar-AA1gefepSeptember 04, 2023, 02:11 PM
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September 04, 2023, 04:36 PM
trapper189Like watching a good opd fashioned tractor pull!
September 04, 2023, 04:42 PM
selogicI just watched a news story on it . It's not as bad as some of the media is making it out to be .
September 04, 2023, 04:55 PM
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September 04, 2023, 09:42 PM
Lefty Sigquote:
I can't disagree with horsepower, but a 2500/3500 with a diesel will out-torque the Hemi by a long way...
September 04, 2023, 10:16 PM
RightwireThey host a massive festival on a dried up lake bed, it rains, and the water stays.
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. September 05, 2023, 10:40 AM
PASigIt looks like something out of a Mad Max movie:
quote:
Drone footage from DailyMail.com showed snaking crowds of vehicles inching their way slowly across the sand as they made for the exits on Monday afternoon.
Some tried to cut in front of each other while others swerved in the mud to avoid crashing, with reports of patience running thin throughout the gridlock.
Tempers frayed during the hours-long line of RVs and campers on the way out of the Nevada desert, with cops warning many had turned hostile towards each other.
Burning Man attendees slammed by cops after trash left in Nevada desert: 'This behavior definitely does not fall within the 10 principles of Burning Man'
September 05, 2023, 10:59 AM
corsairWhich movie was it where all the vehicles were driven in organized lines and columns again?
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
It looks like something out of a Mad Max movie
September 05, 2023, 11:00 AM
Sig2340quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
It looks like something out of a Mad Max movie:
It is a Mad Max Movie.
Life imitating art, and all that rot.
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September 05, 2023, 11:29 AM
vinnybassWhat I've learned about the desert after living here going on fifty years:
The desert is a beautiful and awe inspiring place to visit. Alone, or with one or two friends. Seventy thousand assholes negate this effect.
The desert can be a dangerous place. Everything that lives there has its own natural protection. You don't. Act accordingly.
The desert becomes extremely dangerous to human life in a downpour. What seems like relatively little accumulated rainfall elsewhere becomes volatile very quickly in the desert. It's not unusual for a flash flood to occur miles away from any rainfall. That deluge comes down off the mountains and can quickly tear up anything in its path.
That being said, you could not pay me enough to endure a "festival" in those conditions, or any other.
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