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President Biden Has Been Briefed on Burning Man Chaos

WHAT A MESS

More than 70,000 people got stranded at the festival due to heavy rainfall, trapping attendees in the flooding and mud.

A Burning Man participant makes their way through the mud in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud September 2, 2023.
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