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But as it turns out, I was just not using my imagination, because this year’s Burning Man was an absolute nightmare. casey newtonA bit more of a Drowning Man than a Burning Man, I have to say. kevin rooseYeah, so as someone who’s been to Burning Man, I was fascinated by just the logistics of it all, because it is already a mess to get in and out of Burning Man. kevin rooseSo you are, in addition to a Burning Man escapee this year, you’ve been actually going to Burning Man for a long time. When I say I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what happened to prompt the things that were being directed at us.

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☆ My miserable, euphoric, muddy escape from Burning Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Social media was having a field day turning Burning Man into the epicenter of schadenfreude and misinformation, the few people who managed to connect to the internet reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe reality of Burning Man was not quite so dire. 2023 was my first year at Burning Man. I'd wanted to go to Burning Man for years. Even before the floods, there was an uncomfortable tension to Burning Man.

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☆ Burning Man Is Always a Crisis. But Burners Like Me Know This Time Is Different. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Cory Doctorow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The past two years, I’ve asked myself that question more times than in all the years before. I can see Burning Man — a gathering of more than 70,000 people in a sere and beautiful northwestern Nevada desert full of art and music and foolishness and delight — headed for the climate emergency’s cliff edge. It may not move, it may not end, but it will change. This year started off as one for the history books. Obviously, the weather at the ending was also one for the history books — for very different reasons.

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☆ Video of a Ram truck flying through Burning Man's mud trap while hauling an RV is the best ad a car company could ask for
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The driver of a Ram 1500 TRX defied the odds in a video of the vehicle driving over mud. Amid rainstorms and flooding at Burning Man, the pickup truck managed to escape the muddy playa. While others trudged through ankle-deep mud at Burning Man, the driver of a truck made by Stellantis's Ram brand appeared to power through the wet grounds of Black Rock City, Nevada. The Burning Man festival was hit with rainstorm over the weekend that left more than 73,000 stranded. AdvertisementAdvertisementEach year, Burning Man attracts over 70,000 attendees that include the average Silicon Valley tech bro, models, and billionaires.

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☆ Opinion: Be careful when you laugh at Burning Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Many of us (myself included) raise an eyebrow at Burning Man. Burning Man would feel much less annoying if the festival just said, yeah, we’re a bunch of idiots who want to party in Mad Max costumes. The Burning Man organizers wrote in a statement: “Burning Man is a community of people who are prepared to support one another. One hopes that events like the flooding at Burning Man will be galvanizing, both for those who experienced it and those who watched in horror from afar. It’s easy to sniff at Burning Man, which seems at once so self-important and so very insubstantial.

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☆ Burning Man costs most people a minimum of $800 for just a ticket and a parking spot. All the other expenses can easily push the total cost into the thousands.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Burning Man may be "decommodified" but it's still pretty expensive to attend. AdvertisementAdvertisementTickets alone aren't cheapMost tickets sold directly from Burning Man cost $575 each this year, according to the event's website. Transportation and lodging can easily cost thousandsLots of Burning Man attendees opt for an RV — which can be costly to rent. Aly Weisman/Business InsiderOne website advertising yurts for Burning Man lists structures ranging in price from $3,000 to $11,500. A Burning Man attendee and their costume in front of dozens of bikes on the playa.

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☆ How the ultra-wealthy infiltrated anti-capitalist Burning Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Burning Man, the desert confab that descended into chaos over the weekend, isn’t quite the scrappy, free-spirited revelry that it once was. For many watching the disarray of Burning Man from afar, the rain and mud that left 70,000 people stranded quickly became a symbol of the festival’s departure from its roots. Or, more simply: how the billionaires ruined Burning Man. Going to Burning Man is, in some elite circles, akin to having climbed Everest or taken ayahuasca on a meditation retreat — a spiritually transformative experience, undertaken with a considerable safety net of privilege. “Burning Man is the perfect example of how many rich White people recreationally manufacture hardship because they are immune from it systematically,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, this weekend.

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☆ Preparations for Burning Man: How organizers told festivalgoers to prepare for heavy rain
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Burning Man attendee Masha Maltsava wears trash bags on her feet while walking through water at Burning Man on Saturday, September 2, 2023. Nicole Gollub, who has attended four Burning Man events, said despite her prior experience and serious preparations, she still wasn’t ready for this year’s intense rain. A still from a drone video shows waterlogged campsites at Burning Man on Saturday, September 2, 2023. Still, Burning Man veterans are supportive of these newcomers, according to Gollub. Still, she said, she “didn’t really get it right.”“You need help,” she said, emphasizing the crucial role that community plays in Burning Man.

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☆ Burning Man: Tens of thousands trapped by immense mud might be able to leave if roads reopen today
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Nouran Salahieh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“Despite afternoon drizzle, the conditions are improving on the playa,” Burning Man organizers said Sunday night. About 72,000 people remain on site, according to a Sunday night update from Burning Man organizers. People walk off the playa out near the Burning Man site on the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada on Sunday. Jason Bean/RGJ/USA TODAY/ReutersA death at the festival just ahead of the weekend was “unrelated to the weather,” Burning Man organizers said Sunday night. Attendees walk through a muddy desert plain on Saturday at the Burning Man festival site.

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☆ Live updates: Burning Man festival rain strands thousands in Black Rock Desert
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Maureen Chowdhury | Matt Meyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Comedian Chris Rock and DJ Diplo hitched a ride out of the rain-soaked Burning Man festival in the bed of a fan's pickup truck, but not before hiking miles through thick mud, videos posted to social media show. Rock shared a short video on Instagram Stories of the swampy conditions at the festival grounds on Saturday. A heavy rainstorm battered Nevada’s Black Rock Desert Friday evening and made the typically arid "playa" a "mucky, muddy" mess, attendees said. Diplo then posted a series of videos showing him board a flight — muddy and shoeless. "No one was making it out of burning man they didn’t believe we would walk 6 miles in the mud.

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CNN —As thousands of people remain unable to leave the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated their campsites with ankle-deep mud Saturday, authorities say they are investigating a death at the event. Vehicles trying to drive out will get stuck in the mud, Burning Man organizers said Saturday. Dawn brought muddy realization to the Burning Man encampment, where the exit gates remain closed indefinitely because driving is virtually impossible. A rainbow appears at Burning Man in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, on September 2, 2023. “Burning Man is a community of people who are prepared to support one another,” Burning Man said on its website.

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☆ One death reported at Burning Man, thousands stranded in mud and rain
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Access to and from Black Rock City, the event site, was closed "for the remainder of the event," organizers said in a statement on social media. The Washoe County Sheriff's Office said the entrance to Burning Man had been closed due to flooding and anyone trying to get in "will be turned away." Local media reported there were around 73,000 "burners" in Black Rock City. The festival gets its name from its culminating event, the burning of a large wooden structure called the Man on the penultimate night. The site is in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, a large, flat, ancient lake bed known as a playa.

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Thousands of attendees of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert faced the prospect of more rain on Sunday after a stretch of heavy precipitation that has tested the resolve of its free-spirited participants as most have been stuck at the site and forced to conserve food and water. The police on Sunday were investigating the death of one person at the event, although it was unclear what the cause was. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the family of the victim had been notified, but that no further information was available. Burning Man, a weeklong festival that has been around since the 1980s, is a self-described “community and global cultural movement” that is premised on countercultural principles, such as radical self-expression. It features art installations and culminates with the burning of a giant sculpture of a man, giving it its name.

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☆ Rain and mud leave Burning Man revelers stranded in Nevada desert
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A satellite view shows the center camp during the 2023 Burning Man festival, in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, U.S., August 28, 2023. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 2 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of revelers attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert have been asked to shelter in place and conserve food and water on Saturday after a rainstorm turned the site into mud. Access to and from Black Rock City, the event's site, was closed "for the remainder of the event," organizers said in a statement on social media. "Rain over the last 24 hours has created a situation that required a full stop of vehicle movement on the playa. The festival gets its name from its culminating event, the burning of a large wooden structure called the Man on the penultimate night.

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☆ Charter planes are descending on the Nevada desert — and the pop-up Black Rock City airport — as tech bros and billionaires gather for Burning Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Hundreds of flights have landed in Black Rock City for Burning Man — tech bros' favorite party. AdvertisementAdvertisementOver 880 flights descended on Black Rock Desert's pop-up airport this week as the playa opened shop for Burning Man. Jettly CEO Justin Crabbe told Insider in 2019 that the roundtrip flight from New York to Black Rock City cost $55,000. A Burning Man spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication. According to Burner Express' website, other air carriers can fly into Black Rock City, but those who wish to must email and register with the company in advance.

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☆ Burning Man is underway. Here are the famous CEOs and billionaires who have attended tech bros' favorite party, from Elon Musk to Ray Dalio.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Becky Peterson | Jordan Hart | Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Burning Man is a desert-based arts festival that's become the playground of business elites. Morning Brew Insider recommends waking up with, a daily newsletter. Loading Something is loading. AdvertisementAdvertisementSome of the most influential — and richest — people in business are likely among the tens of thousands of people descending upon Black Rock City, Nevada, at this very moment to attend Burning Man. Every year, big-name tech bros and well-heeled execs join the festival — trading their hoodies for light-up bodysuits and Allbirds for sky-high boots.

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☆ Cedar Key: Hurricane Idalia turned a 'haven for artists' into a flooded wreck
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesA view of the flooding in Cedar Key, Florida, on August 30, 2023. Julio Cesar Chavez/ReutersPhotos on the Cedar Key Fire Rescue Facebook account showing some of the early destruction. And unlike Key West, Cedar Key has avoided high-end commercial development along its shores and remains a low-key spot. What Idalia did to Cedar KeyA vehicle was partially submerged after the arrival of Hurricane Idalia in Cedar Key on Wednesday. “Everything is flooded,” Shely Boivin, the manager of a beachfront motel in Cedar Key, told CNN.

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IS CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTING HURRICANES? Yes, climate change is making hurricanes wetter, windier and altogether more intense. If it were not for the oceans, the planet would be much hotter due to climate change. Climate change can also boost the amount of rainfall delivered by a storm. It is unclear, however, if climate change is affecting the number of hurricanes that form each year.

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☆ I used TikTok to plan my vacation. Here’s how that went
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

I put a stint of endless scrolling to good use by using the app to decide the itinerary for my latest vacation. So, like TikTok users said, early morning is probably the best time for a tourist to first experience the amusement park. Amarachi Orie/CNNWith a name meaning “Yellow Beach,” this place was an aesthetic wonder, which explains why it came up on TikTok. Amarachi Orie/CNNThis beach club on the Veronica Strip was recommended by TikTok users as the place to be to enjoy the island’s nightlife. I would recommend every place TikTok took me to, especially the aesthetic masterpieces: the yellow beach, Fiore and Masca.

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☆ Burning Man, tech bros' favorite party, is in jeopardy because of Tropical Storm Hilary
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Burning Man is facing challenges due to flooding from Tropical Storm Hilary. The gates to the Black Rock Desert event remained closed on Tuesday. AdvertisementAdvertisementBurning Man, the festival beloved by Silicon Valley's elite, is at risk of quenched by Tropical Storm Hilary. Nevada's Black Rock Desert, where the event takes place each year, closed its gate due to flooding caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Hilary, The San Francisco Standard reported. "Temporary gate closures are not abnormal," a Burning Man rep told Insider.

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☆ Cat-sitting to save on travel costs? I looked after 5 and got a free place in Spain for two weeks
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In lieu of payment, I could stay in her ensuite guest room, and even use her car too. Daniella asked. After dropping Daniella off at the airport early the next morning, my adventure as a first-time cat sitter began. I'd top up the dry food that they grazed on during the day and make sure they had fresh water. Phiro, a pale ginger tabby, one of the cats the author took care of.

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☆ Spanish archaeologists plan rescue of 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] A diver from Valencia University maps and assesses the state of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician vessel that is submerged 60 meters from the beach of Mazarron, Spain, June 20, 2023. Jose A Moya/Regional Government of Murcia/Handout via REUTERSMADRID, June 30 (Reuters) - A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it from the sea before a storm destroys it forever. Later this year, the experts will recommend how to protect and retrieve the wreck, possibly as early as next summer. It now lies under about 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) of crystal-clear Mediterranean water, surrounded by sandbags and a metal structure built for protection. Reporting by Emma Pinedo, editing by Inti Landauro and Philippa FletcherOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Storm Beatriz approaches Mexican Pacific resorts, hurricane expected
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MEXICO CITY, June 29 (Reuters) - Storm Beatriz formed off Mexico's Pacific coast on Thursday and will likely strengthen into a hurricane by Friday, prompting the government to issue warnings for popular beach resorts as it heads near shore, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm is expected to "move very near or along the coast of southwestern Mexico" and is moving west-northwest near 12 mph (19 km/h),the U.S.-based NHC said late Thursday. "Beatriz is likely to become a hurricane on Friday," the NHC said. A tropical storm warning is also in effect from Punta Maldonado in the southwestern state of Guerrero, home to tourist hotspot Acapulco, to Zihuatanejo, another popular beach town in the state. Swells were also forecast along Mexico's southwestern coast, likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.

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☆ Amputee surfer making waves in the sport
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Borja Suarez | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Sarah Almagro, 23, trains with her coach Javier Donoso, during the adaptive surfing Open LPA Surf City, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, June 11, 2023. REUTERS/Borja SuarezLAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, June 12 (Reuters) - When Sarah Almagro was 18 she suffered meningococcal meningitis and surgeons had to amputate both her hands and feet. Almagro was among the competitors who took part in the Open LPA Surf City 2023 championship in Playa de las Canteras in Gran Canaria on Saturday. Adaptive surfing refers to surfing where people with disabilities adapt their techniques and equipment in order to be able to practise the sport. Surfing will not be part of the Paralympics next year in Paris, but Almagro hopes it will chosen as a sport for the Games from 2028.

Persons: Sarah Almagro, Javier Donoso, Borja Suarez, Almagro, Graham Keeley, Toby Davis Organizations: Gran Canaria, REUTERS, Borja Suarez LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, Reuters, Games, Thomson Locations: Las Palmas, Gran, Spain, United States, Playa de las, Malaga, Paris

☆ Two Americans Take a Chance in Playa del Carmen, Mexico: Which Condo Did They Buy?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Morien Wark and Zoelle Appell had long been fond of Mexico, particularly Playa del Carmen, a coastal resort town where they had spent many vacations over the years. By New Year’s Eve, they were in Playa del Carmen. “This move was always something that was in the back of our mind,” Mr. Wark said. Unlike her husband, Ms. Appell does not speak Spanish, but the fast-growing expatriate community made it easier for her to get by. Late last year, after selling their Portland house for $650,000, Mr. Wark and Ms. Appell set up a fideicomiso and began house hunting in Playa del Carmen.

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