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Chris Rock is no longer trapped at the Burning Man Festival. The 58-year-old comedian made it out after he and Diplo hitched a ride with a fan who offered them a ride on the back of his pickup truck.
The famous DJ took to Instagram moments ago and posted a video showing him, Rock and a few others in the bed of a pickup truck. Diplo shared that they walked for six miles before someone offered them a ride. The comedian rocked a New York Knicks jacket, black hat and shades. After getting out of dodge, Rock made it clear what he wanted next, a cold brew!
Shortly after Diplo shared the update on Instagram, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department announced the closure of the entrance to Burning Man for the remainder of the event, which was slated to run until Monday. Officials are asking people to avoid the area or “you will be turned around.”
For most of the day it seemed like Rock would be among the thousands upon thousands who would be stuck at Burning Man, after a heavy rainstorm pummeled Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The inclement weather triggered a “shelter in place” order and festival organizers implored attendees to conserve food and water.
Rock had been documenting the experience on his Instagram Stories, which included a since-expired Story in which he shared that “because of the flooding, the port-o-potties reportedly can’t be emptied. And because the gates are closed, people can’t get in to fill generators or deliver supplies.”
Rock later posted, on Saturday morning, a short video showing the heavy mud making it impossible to get around the area. Another attendee posted a video on TikTok showing him walking in
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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic As far as the-end-of-something symbolism went, this year’s Burning Man festival was about as sharp as it gets: A social-media optimized version of Woodstock ’99. Consider: The 2023 edition of the Black Rock Desert-based cultural festival in Nevada was disrupted by torrential rainfall that turned the sand of the “Playa” into quicksand-like mud — all of which cast into disarray not merely the planned revelry of dedicated “Burners” (who are only now making their exodus through traffic-clogged Nevada streets) but the downtime of various prominent celebrities.
Burning Man festival goers have started exiting the site in huge numbers after wet conditions started to ease.This weekend tens of thousands of fans were left stranded in the Nevada desert after rainfall created muddy conditions, which resulted in the shut down of the festival three days early. It was due to run from August 27 to September 4, 2023.Attendees were told to stay in their camps and conserve food and water, with roads in and out of the event closed due to flooding.Organisers finally allowed revelers to start leaving the site at midday (8pm BST) yesterday (September 4).Thousands of Burning Man attendees are making their "exodus" as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of its famous party around a flaming effigy namesake | Read more: https://t.co/Sk4nlUzIxn pic.twitter.com/yZKHwm8205— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 5, 2023“Please know that while conditions are improving and roads are drying, the playa is still muddy and may be difficult to navigate in some neighbourhoods and down certain streets,” organisers added.Meanwhile, authorities have identified the person who died at the festival as 32-year-old Leon Reece.The Pershing County sheriff’s office said it had received a call around 6.24pm (local time) on Friday (September 1) about an unresponsive man on the ground at Black Rock City.Organisers also said the man’s death was unrelated to the weather, reports BBC News.Local reports previously described the conditions at Burning Man as “treacherous” with “thick, slimy mud that clung to shoes and anything else it touched”.
Chris Rock and Diplo have escaped Burning Man after they were picked up by a fan while exiting the festival.This weekend tens of thousands of festival attendees were left stranded in the Nevada desert after rainfall created muddy conditions, which resulted in the shut down of the festival three days early. It was due to run from August 27 to September 4, 2023.Attendees were told to stay in their camps and conserve food and water, with roads in and out of the event closed due to flooding.However, the US comedian and DJ managed to exit the festival after hitching a ride in a fan’s pickup truck along with other festival-goers.“A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride out of Burning Man in the back of a pick up,” Diplo wrote in a social media video posted Saturday (September 2).
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UPDATE: The fun and games of the Burning Man festival continues to deteriorate. Now, one person has died, and reports circulating indicate a pit of misery, as a lack of food, water, and muddy conditions have made the event’s Nevada playa location into a hellhole.
Michaela Zee Diplo escaped Burning Man with comedian Chris Rock after heavy rainfall interrupted the festival on Friday night. In a video posted to Diplo’s Instagram on Saturday, the DJ records himself in the back of a pickup truck with Rock and other festival-goers. “A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride out of Burning Man in the back of a pick up,” he wrote in the video.
Local reports described the conditions at the festival as “treacherous” with “thick, slimy mud that clung to shoes and anything else it touched”.
Comedian Chris Rock and DJ Diplo have been among those fleeing from this year's Burning Man festival, as the Nevada desert is hit by torrential rain and flooding, with one revelled reported dead.The celeb pals left the festival, despite calls for festival-goers to shelter in place, and were able to hitch a ride after a fan offered them space on their pick-up truck. Posting to social media, Diplo, 44, shared that he and Chris, 58, had made it out of the festival as he posted a video of the pair on the back of the truck.
73,000 people were stuck at the festival due to the weather.Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, shared a video to his Instagram where he and Rock, who wore a New York Knicks jacket, sat in the bed of a pickup truck with five other people and bags of equipment.“A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride out of Burning Man in the back of a pickup,” the DJ wrote in an Instagram video. “I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz I have a show in DC tonight and didn’t want to let y’all down.”“Also shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment,” Diplo added.A post shared by diplo (@diplo)Heavy rain flooded the usually dry land and forced organizers to postpone the namesake ceremony of the event to be postponed and thousands of attendees were told to shelter in place.One person has died at the festival as the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death came “during this rain event,” according to NBC San Diego.
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Bianca Snyder says she has “no regrets” taking her 7-year-old son, Tage, every year to Burning Man, the infamous sex- and drug-fueled festival in the Nevada desert. “Our son goes everywhere that we go, and that’s just the way that we live,” Snyder — who runs a cannabis company with her partner, known online as @highsocietypapa — told Insider this week about their parenting style.Launched in 1986, Burning Man attracts tens of thousands of attendees who come together to build a “participative temporary metropolis.”The annual festival is widely known for its “Orgy Dome,” drug presence, and extravagant — and skimpy — outfits.A post shared by Bianca aka High Society Mama (@biancastribe)Snyder argues festivalgoers “can cultivate the experience that you want to have” and in addition to drugs and orgies, there are “people doing yoga, there’s people having important conversations that are relevant to improving the future of mankind.
Burning Man 2023 this weekend.Protestors from the Seven Circles blocked the highway in north-west Nevada leading to the festival Sunday (August 27), using 28-foot trailer which four people chained themselves to, according to The Guardian.The protest resulted in standstill traffic for over an hour, where attendees clashed with protesters who held signs reading “Burners of the world, unite!”, “Mother Earth needs our help”, “General strike for climate change” and “Abolish capitalism”.Nevada rangers drove directly into a blockade set up by climate protestors on the road to Burning Man. An officer pulled a gun out, tackling a protestor and threatening to shootEnvironmental activists were demanding that #BurningMan ban private jets + single-use plastics pic.twitter.com/dawDjxhV4y— michelle lh࿊࿊q (@MichelleLhooq) August 28, 2023The Guardian reported that activists were told by members of the Paiute Tribe, which owns the surrounding area, that they were not allowed to stage their protest on tribal lands.