Burning Man festival exodus set to start through drying mud

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BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada : Thousands of Burning Man attendees readied to make their 'exodus' on Monday as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of a party around its flaming effigy namesake.Rain over the weekend turned the once hard-packed ground to pudd

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada : Thousands of Burning Man attendees readied to make their"exodus" on Monday as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of a party around its flaming effigy namesake.

For days, some 70,000 people were ordered to stay put and conserve food and water as officials closed the roads and exits, ordering all vehicles to stay put lest they got stuck in the mud and blocked traffic."Yep, the rain cleared out of there," said Marc Chenard, a forecaster with the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland."It'll be sunny today with temperatures in the 70s .

"When you get pushed to extremes, that's when the most fun happens," said Brian Fraoli, 45, a veteran"burner" who works in finance in New York.

 

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