Rainstorms Force Cancellation of Burning Man's First Day

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Keith Carlsen For the Washington Post Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada. Rainstorms accept prevented the 2014 event's aperture day.

Rainstorms affected the organizers of Burning Man to abolish the arid free-for-all's aperture day this anniversary and ask attendees to adjourn their biking affairs until "at atomic Tuesday morning." The anchorage arch into Nevada's Black Rock Arid were accounted "un-drivable" by the accident producers, who aswell appear continuing baptize on the playa that serves as the event's area via Facebook. State patrolmen are redirecting cartage apprenticed for the Burning Man site, and bounded badge are axis abroad cars at the accident access and auspicious them to acquisition a safe abode to park. Burning Man organizers said they hoped the rains would stop in time for the playa to dry out by midday Tuesday.


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This year, in an accomplishment to abate parking-lot overcrowding, the accident offered alone 35,000 car passes, admitting in years accomplished Burning Man has admiring added than 50,000 humans searching to embrace the event's "spirit of community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance."


Tickets for the accident amount -to-be revelers $380.  The Wire letters that Burning Man will not affair refunds for the absent day, due to its agreement and conditions.


Instead, Burning Man's organizers accept been arising tweets of warning. "If you're in Reno, amuse break there until we let you apperceive the Gate has reopened," said one. "Rain continuing," said another from a altered official account. "Please do not appear to Burning Man until you apprehend contrarily from official channels."


The official Burning Man website warns, "Weather on the playa is generally agitated and unpredictable. Dust storms, top winds, freezing temperatures, rain – Burning Man has apparent anniversary of these at assorted times." The website recommends "Burners" attending up Gerlach, Nevada – the city-limits abutting to the Burning Man website – for forecasts. Adding to the confusion, Weather.com forecasted alone partly blurred altitude over Gerlach at the time of this post, contradicting the organizers' letters of rain on the absolute Burning Man site.

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