Big Red Bash festival a mud pit as deluge washes out campsite, closes roads near Birdsville

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About 6000 Big Red Bashers had their “boots in the mud” while thousands more were left waiting at roadblocks and nearby towns as an unseasonal deluge left a rain cloud hanging over the popular outback music festival. There were fears the three-day event could be a wash-out after almost 20mm of rain fell across the festival grounds in one of the nation’s driest areas, just outside Birdsville on the edge of the Simpson Desert.

The rain did not stop falling until Sunday evening, with many people making the pilgrimage to the outback festival required to make detours around flooding and road closures. Police had been providing regular updates on local radio stations. “The site is not quite ready for roll-in yet,” organisers said earlier on Monday.

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