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by floodedburner 1025 days ago
At BRC now. It sucks. Everything is flooded. The man is not going to burn. There are 2 more days of rain forecasted. My guess is Wednesday when driving will be possible.
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> The man is not going to burn

I promise you, the man will burn if the burners are at all dedicated to the cause. Dried wood only soaks a few millimeters of rain unless it's completely submerged for a very long time. Use an accelerant to get it started, and nature will do the rest.

Will they be allowed to? I imagine there is some sort of agreement with local/state government in place and this rain will already cause them to keep the camp up longer than was probably approved.
> Will they be allowed to?

Well, I cannot answer that, but I believe my hedge "if the burners are at all dedicated to the cause" still applies?

I mean who's gonna stop em?
Man will burn tomorrow
Thanks for the actual updates and photos.

I’m curious: What’s your internet access setup there?

Camp had shared internet from the org. That stopped working so joined the plug and play camps WiFi which is starlink.
Starlink primarily. There is no cell service out there.
You can get a few bars of T-Mobile from the right spot, at least last time I was there.
Indeed, a friend was just texting me from Burning Man an hour ago.
404. That’s an error.

The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

404
url is 404 unfortunately