Burning Man 2023 live: Chaos unfolds as attendees stage an exodus after torrential rains stranding thousands

Oliver Anthony, the country artist behind the hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond,” was apparently among those stranded at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

As of Tuesday morning PT, traffic is moving out of the Black Rock Desert, as Burning Man attendees leave the nine-day festival, “smoothly.”

Checkout time was about 2-3 hours at 10am PT.

A local sheriff in Nevada has been forced to dethrone the wild conspiracy theories that continue to circulate online about Burning Man.

A wave of misinformation has swept across the city of Blackrock and online on X, formerly known as Twitter, and TikTok, as the site turned into a whitewashing operation over the weekend.

One of the biggest false rumors was of an Ebola outbreak at the festival, with some of the conspirators claiming that there were several deaths from the disease.

Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen responded to the rumors in a statement about the event on Monday.

“In consultation with the Bureau of Land Management and the Burning Man Project, there are no reports of an outbreak of Ebola or any other disease,” he said.

Burning Man’s mayhem isn’t over yet, as annoyed revelers attack each other as they exit the festival site.

After a long weekend full of mishaps and extreme weather – in which a large amount of rain turned the parched desert floor into a mud pit – tensions rose among some festival-goers on Monday.

After heavy rain left most of Burning Man waterlogged and wet, the ground is expected to dry out on Tuesday.

The National Weather Service (NWS) indicated that sunny weather in the 80s is expected today – providing the perfect conditions for many of the attendees to leave after the rain.

In a statement submitted to the independent, The CDC confirmed that there were no reports of Ebola in Burning Man.

“The CDC has not received any reports of Ebola at the Burning Man Festival and has not issued any warnings or received any requests for help from state and local health departments as well,” a CDC spokesperson said.

“In addition, we have not received reports of the Embox or Marburg virus, and to our knowledge no national emergency has been declared due to the flooding.”

Burning Man organizers said the wait time for attendees to leave was about five hours on Tuesday.

The waiting time to exit the BRC is 5 hours. Stay tuned to GARS 95.1 and BMIR 94.5 for more updated information. Drive safely, obey traffic laws, and be courteous, patient and dress appropriately if leaving your vehicle. – Please be respectful of the land and the people you encounter.