Thousands leave Burning Man festival after rain

A mass exodus took place in the Nevada desert, where tens of thousands of people were finally allowed to leave the Burning Man festival.

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00:00 >> Overnight the giant statue of a man set on fire in the

00:03 Nevada desert signaling the end of burning man festival which

00:07 became a muddy trap for tens of thousands of people 3 months

00:12 worth of rain fell in just hours on the festival making

00:16 roads impassable in the dry Nevada desert for days.

00:19 >> The mud proving to thick for most vehicles to traverse.

00:26 >> Those monsoonal rains that changed everything turning

00:29 this lake bed into a mud pit that traps everything are these

00:33 shoes people but now

00:35 the roads have dried out enough that that exodus has begun its

00:39 stretches across the horizon trucks are these bikes cars.

00:43 It's a mile and a half long.

00:45 >> Yesterday afternoon organizers finally announced

00:48 the main route in and out of the festival was finally

00:51 reopened creating a miles long traffic jam saying it could

00:55 take more than 7 hours to reach the road that leads to the

00:58 nearest town we had to put that trash bags on the shoes in

01:02 order for us to not you know.

01:04 >> I think it feels like a 5 pounds on each leg.

01:07 >> Some walking to the nearest Pave Road 5 miles away hoping

01:12 to hitch a ride.

01:13 >> It did take me like 30 minutes to walk like 40 feet

01:17 because it was so so liquid in the water was sinking, you know

01:21 5, 6 feet in.

01:22 >> Celebrity DJ diplo telling ABC News about his trek with

01:26 a group of celebrities Carly Klaus was their leader we

01:29 walked out with her city Crawford ready Gerber and

01:32 Chris rock.

01:33 >> The musician and comedian Chris rock eventually catching

01:37 a ride with some fans we have like 10 of us jumped in the

01:40 back of his truck and we took us the last 2 miles.

01:42 >> Rihanna Nally ABC News New York.

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