![]() ![]() But the beautiful thing about Burning Man is that the first question people ask is not, “How do I get out of here?” - it is “Who needs help? How can I help?” If no service trucks could get in, we knew it would be a disaster. But if it kept raining, we wouldn’t get out until Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at the earliest. Based on information from the playa, it would take 12 hours to drain and dry out so when there was standing water Saturday morning, we figured we couldn’t get out until Sunday and people were already prepared to stay until Monday for the official burning of the man and the temple. By Saturday when we woke up, it was no different at all. The people in RVs would be fine, but it was the people who were staying in tents that would be in trouble because of the standing water. The general mood was, let’s hunker down, make some food, take care of each other and make sure everyone is OK. Needless to say, it becomes very difficult to walk. If you’re walking, each shoe feels like it weighs 40 pounds because the shoes pick it up and won’t let it go. Your shoes grab on and it becomes almost like a snowshoe of four- to five-inch-thick dense clay. If you try to walk, drive or move around in it, it doesn’t turn into mud, it becomes something like a wet cement. But the problem with rain on the playa is that it’s almost like an acidic lakebed, so instead of seeping into the ground, water collects on top of the ground. Not everybody has WiFi at Burning Man - there are pockets of WiFi for people who have Starlink - so there was a lot of misinformation about the forecast. It’s hard to judge the weather and harder to predict what’s going to happen, but we were hearing that it was going to continue to rain on Saturday and again on Sunday. ![]() Todd Garner is pictured in Burning Man in 2023. Maybe I can learn something, see some beautiful art, meet some cool people and have a great time. My buddies were planning a guy’s trip and I thought, you know what, I love these guys and I should go. It wasn’t even supposed to be an option for me because I should have been shooting a movie in Australia right now but the strike shut me down, so I was at home and available. This may sound very “woo-woo” and I’m not a “woo-woo” guy, but lately I’ve been hearing that it’s a great place to go to learn something about yourself. I went for the first time with my wife, and we ran around for a couple of days and thought, “Wow, that was crazy.” It was very stimulating. I haven’t been to Burning Man in 10 years. ![]()
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