Burning Man Hit By 50 MPH Dust Storm. Possible Monsoon Thunderstorms Forecast (msn.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/25/0027216/burning-man-hit-by-50-mph-dust-storm-possible-monsoon-thunderstorms-forecast
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/extreme-weather-events/dust-storm-flips-tents-at-burning-man-as-forecasters-warn-of-looming-flood-danger/ar-AA1L7RiV
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"Winds of up to 50 mph stirred up the lake bed's alkaline dust so ferociously that participants in the annual art and culture festival reported not being able to see beyond a foot... "
> The dust storm arrived Saturday evening after strong thunderstorms in the Sierra Nevada drifted off the mountains and whipped up strong winds in the Nevada desert... At 5:14 p.m. Saturday, the weather service issued a [3]dust storm advisory for Black Rock City and warned of "a wall of blowing dust coming off the Smoke Creek and Black Rock Desert playa areas is tracking northward at around 30 mph." The agency warned of visibility less than 1 mile and wind gusts exceeding 45 mph. A weather station at Black Rock City Airport measured gusts up to 52 mph at 5:50 p.m... ["We saw structures being [4]ripped and torn down by the wind speeds even though we buttoned everything down as best as we could..." one Burner told the Chronicle.] Camp residents posted a slew of videos to social media featuring [5]dust tornadoes , [6]destroyed campsites , and fellow campers [7]struggling to hold onto bucking canvases as the wind threatened to rip them away. "Every popup canopy I've seen has been destroyed," one Burner wrote [8]on Reddit ... ["Make sure you carry your particle/dust mask and goggles with you when you venture out on playa!" warns Burning Man's [9]official weather page .]
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> Even after Saturday's storm, Burners won't be out of the woods from hazardous weather. The weather service warned of possible monsoon thunderstorms and heavy rain Sunday through Wednesday, raising concerns that this year's festival could echo disastrous 2023 conditions, when [10]heavy storms stranded tens of thousands of attendees amid thick mud. "It's becoming increasingly likely that we could see an even greater flash flood threat," the weather service wrote in an [11]online forecast . "If you're on the playa at the Black Rock Desert, you may very well be in for a muddy mess Monday through Wednesday." Slow-moving storms could drop an inch of rain or more in a short period.
"Still, gates to the festival had opened by Sunday morning," the article adds, "with organizers cautioning new arrivals to 'drive safely!'"
Burning Man's official weather page currently links to a National Weather Service page [12]with a "Flood Watch" warning through 9 p.m. Sunday, and also predicting a chance of thunderstorms on Sunday and Monday.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/extreme-weather-events/dust-storm-flips-tents-at-burning-man-as-forecasters-warn-of-looming-flood-danger/ar-AA1L7RiV
[2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/burning-man-dust-storm-20994950.php
[3] https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=rev&issuedby=REV&product=DSW
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1mz1j7v/its_not_the_size_of_the_lag_bolt_that_screwed_you/
[5] https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnydiggz/video/7541956732314995998?_r=1&_t=ZP-8z9MbPoPmG7
[6] https://www.tiktok.com/@angiepeacockmsw/video/7541995887623425311?_t=ZP-8z9MfPkCKwY&_r=1
[7] https://www.tiktok.com/@andreatamanas/video/7541969367009987871?_r=1&_t=ZP-8z9MZgLF1mZ
[8] https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1myiemv/comment/nadmdyj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[9] https://burningman.org/event/preparation/playa-living/weather/
[10] https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/burning-man-effigy-18345243.php
[11] https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=rev&issuedby=REV&product=AFD
[12] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=160&y=75&site=rev&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=160&map_y=75
Nuke the site from orbit (Score:2)
it's the only way to be sure.
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No. We must study them.
Re: Nuke the site from orbit (Score:2)
We know them well, just nuke them
It's hard to have a festival now (Score:2)
Festivals have become increasingly scarce as it gets more difficult to have one. A big portion of your ticket price goes to paying for your own police harassment, which is especially pertinent for Burning Man where many of the activities that long-time Burners speak of nostalgically can often now lead to arrest, and authorities won't let the festival occur without a significant police presence.
I know it's trendy to claim that events have become passe, but Burning Man seems like the poster child for that.
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Festivals have become increasingly scarce as it gets more difficult to have one. A big portion of your ticket price goes to paying for your own police harassment, which is especially pertinent for Burning Man where many of the activities that long-time Burners speak of nostalgically can often now lead to arrest, and authorities won't let the festival occur without a significant police presence.
You can't use the guise of a "festival" to commit crimes. If you don't like the laws then work to change them,
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> You can't use the guise of a "festival" to commit crimes.
What I'm talking about are victimless crimes, like public sex or voluntary but unauthorized use of controlled substances. You're correct that engaging in these things isn't legal just because it's done at a festival, but that doesn't mean I want to pay for them to be prevented.
> If you don't like the laws then work to change them
How adorbs, you seem to think we have democracy.
> You can't have 50,000 people in once place and it expect it be a love or peace fest. Those times are **WAY** over. Humans don't behave like that anymore.
When did they? When was Burning Man a love or peace fest?
Re: It's hard to have a festival now (Score:3)
May I quote Wikipedia?
"According to the Encyclopædia Britannica and Indian authorities, more than 200 million Hindus gathered for the Kumbh Mela in 2019, including 50 million on the festival's most crowded day.[4] The festival is one of the largest peaceful gatherings in the world, and considered as the "world's largest congregation of religious pilgrims".[25]"
Re: It's hard to have a festival now (Score:2)
What if cops cause robbers?
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They ruined Gay Days in central Florida, too. It started out as just a bunch of people on dial-up BBSes arranging a local trip to Magic Kingdom, and grew into this massive corporate-sponsored multi-day event that even Disney kinda-sorta began to acknowledge in recent years.
Of course, this year with the political dark cloud hanging over all things diversity related, some of the sponsors noped out, and attendance was noticeably down. Seems like given enough time, it'll go back to being a lower-key event whe
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Festivals no longer have a vibe: There's no longer a sense of people joining together to concentrate on one bit of fun and not worry (so much) about other people. Now, festivals are all about being censored, about political correctness. Now, they're international events and anything that anyone, anywhere might dislike, has to be avoided, so the image can be merchandised (and broadcast) to the world.
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Being highly censorious isn't historically new, but at least cultures in the past agreed on what to censor. What you are describing is what cultural fragmentation looks like in practice, where people no longer have common culture.
DEW from space targetting those evil white hippies (Score:2)
i believe is what newsom's latest tweet was about
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Sounds like something that newsom the temu-trump would post about, anything to get news clips.
So is there REALLY a monsoon and windstorm... (Score:2)
Or did someone just drop some bad acid and hallucinate?
People choose disaster (Score:2)
> ... stranded tens of thousands of attendees ...
The same thing will happen this time, because people didn't want to prepare (for both having not-enough water and having too-much water), and in the case of Burning Man, didn't want to carry all that safety equipment into the desert.
Fucking hippies (Score:2)
I used to go. I've been part of two different camps, volunteered, and worked different roles on a few different projects that burned, exploded or both, and other stuff.
I look at those reddit threats and shake my head. People, building for temporary human habitation on-playa has been a solved problem for a long time. You can do it in a number of different ways at a number of different price points, and none of them involve making several-hundred-square-foot kites of out tarps and trying to hold them down w
Burning Man isn't what it used to be. (Score:2)
Burning Man became a place for tech bros to do drugs and bang hippie chicks.
Only a matter of time before it has a Woodstock '99 moment.
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I can't imagine such material would ever become public. The tech bros and C-level execs slumming at Burning Man wouldn't want their trophy wives finding out they didn't catch The Clap (and who knows what else?) from a toilet seat. Unlike the hippie chick who moonlights on OF when she's not selling chakra crystals and artisanal dream catchers made from her own armpit hair, guys who work in the tech industry already know: "The Internet never forgets."
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> Was looking at shiftpods and was wondering about the application.
Bears like their meals wrapped in foil.
Seriously though, rich tech bros are probably in campers with air conditioning. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it certainly can buy not stinking like a farm animal while you camp in the desert.
Re: Burning Man isn't what it used to be. (Score:2)
What if prostitution were openly legal and unregulated?
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> but it certainly can buy not stinking like a farm animal while you camp in the desert.
So, definitely not Woodstock.
Re: Burning Man isn't what it used to be. (Score:2)
Is this an obvious use-case for AI porn?