The Burning Man festival made its return to the post-COVID world last weekend, but the party ended in suffering as people were trapped in 15-lane traffic for hours. The official Twitter account of the event warned of eight-hour delays, but others reported waiting up to 14 hours.
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People were horrified to find out how long they would have to wait. From New York Post:
"Some Burners reportedly had to wait as long as 12 hours to leave the pyrotechnic event with one beleaguered attendee claiming: "When we left at 8:38 p.m. last night, the estimate was 6 hours, but half of our group took 10 hours and the other half of our group took 12 hours to get to the gate."
For those who are unfamiliar, Burning Man is an annual festival held in the Nevada desert where people come to express themselves and celebrate being anti-consumerist. The name of the event comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night of Burning Man, which is the Saturday evening before Labor Day.
The event has been located since 1991 at Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert about 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Reno.