Thousands of partygoers begin exodus from Burning Man
Muddy roads flooded by a summer storm that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at the Burning Man counterculture festival had dried up enough today to allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.
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![REBECCA BARGER/@REBECCABARGERPHOTO VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS In this image from video, festivalgoers are helped off a truck from the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., today. An unusual late-summer storm stranded thousands at the week-long event.](https://staradvertiser.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/web1_20230904_brk_bma01.jpg)
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![REBECCA BARGER/@REBECCABARGERPHOTO VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS In this image from video, festivalgoers are helped off a truck from the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., today. An unusual late-summer storm stranded thousands at the week-long event.](https://staradvertiser.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/web1_20230904_brk_bma01.jpg)