“A fan offered Chris Rock and me a ride from Burning Man in the back of his truck.” As the famous Nevada music festival was trapped in the mud caused by torrential rains and the airport was closed, DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock managed to escape aboard a vehicle.
The DJ recounts his journey in a video posted on Instagram and claims to have had to walk almost 10 kilometers in the mud.
“I stood on the side of the road for hours with my thumbs up because I have a concert in Washington tonight and I didn’t want to disappoint. [le public]. And also shout out to this guy who made the smart purchase of a truck without knowing it was for that exact moment.”
“Ten kilometers in the mud”
He narrates the end of his adventure in a story, with his face aesthetically covered in mud:
“Nobody could get out of Burning Man, they couldn’t believe we’d be walking almost 10 miles through the mud… nobody believed we’d make it to Washington for tonight’s show, but God, we were.”
We then see him arrive at an airport where a plane is waiting for him.
Eric Hamilton, Diplo’s assistant, also documented the adventure in an Instagram story, showing patches of sticky mud that impeded the movement of cars. He recounts his journey on foot to the main road, where a van driver recognizes the DJ and takes him aboard with his and Chris Rock’s crew, who was also there.
The machine took them to the neighboring town, from where they took a van that took them to Reno, from where they could reach Washington, on the other side of the country.
impassable esplanade
The heavy rains fell on the American festival, leaving impassable “the beach”, the huge esplanade where the event is held, and the participants could no longer enter or leave the place on Saturday in the Nevada desert.
If the rains stopped on Saturday, it should rain again on Sunday, the last day of the festival, while overnight temperatures from Saturday to Sunday should drop to around 10 degrees Celsius, according to organizers. The local Black Rock City airport is also closed.
Launched in 1986 in San Francisco, Burning Man aims to be an indefinable event, somewhere between a counterculture celebration and a spiritual retreat.
But the event marked by large wood-burning bonfires has evolved since its creation. The party, halfway between pagan worship and the rave, was originally a kind of anarchist manifesto whose principle was based on artistic creation, but also on the gift economy, the absence of advertising.
Initially organized on a beach in San Francisco, Burning Man has become a structured festival, with a budget of almost 45 million dollars (2018 figures) and more than 75,000 participants in the last edition.
Today it is the reference point for stars and billionaires, where you can come across all of Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Source: BFM TV
