Heavy rains turned this year’s Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock desert into a quagmire of mud. Tens of thousands of attendees were stranded for days and when the roads became dry enough for people to leave, the mass exodus produced hours-long traffic jams ten lanes wide
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Main image: A satellite image shows an overview of the center camp of Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock desert. Photograph: Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Tech/AFP/Getty ImagesWed 6 Sep 2023 20.11 EDT
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