From “burning” to “stuck in mud”

From what I’ve heard, climate change hasn’t been good to humanity this summer. 

That set of bad surprises seem to have extended to the participants of the national “Burning Man” festival, west of us in a desert spot, not far from Reno, Nevada, where thousands of attendees remained stranded this past weekend, flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert (the usual number of attendees is in the 75,000).

The event that began in 1986 has seen precipitations before; rain was reported on August 30, 1997, on August 25, 2014 and on September 1, 2017, so the festivities aren’t as always dry and dusty as some might think. 

At this event, festival organizers have been asking participants to remain calm and turn a challenge into something to measure up against. Buses have also been organized to take attendees to Reno from the nearby small town of Gerlach, some five miles from the site. 

Let’s hope things dry up a bit so the huge effigy can burn to the satisfaction of the mud-clad participants!