Burning 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.
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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.
Burning Man Project, the nonprofit organization that runs the gathering, has requested that both event staff and attendees hold off from entering the festival grounds until at least Wednesday at noon.
“We have 1,500 staff onsite waiting for the surface to dry, and we are asking all early arrival workers and campers to delay their travel,” the organization said in a statement to Insider.
Burners, as attendees are called, shared photos of the flooded grounds on Monday morning, and the Burning Man traffic account posted travel warnings.
While the festival doesn’t kick off until Sunday August 27, attendees typically travel to the desert venue a week prior to begin building their camps, but weather conditions have left encampments water-logged, as seen in images on Reddit.
The event, for which tickets cost up to $2,750, has attracted the likes of Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
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