Agreed, it'd be a little unnerving if the toll reverted back to 0.

Was your buddy obligated to go pick them up, or was the money that good that he couldn't say no?

I used to run in a party crowd that had a LOT of burning man folks in it. There were a couple of them that had middle class incomes, maybe even leaning upper middle class. Those are usually the ones that had an art car or whatever that they sank some money into, instead of the crap that most upper middle class Americans blow their money on.

But the rest of them? They worked at restaurants, did massage therapy, teachers, etc. normal people with median or lower incomes that would forego other expenses to set aside a little a money for their annual get high in the desert trip.

Yes, there’s a bunch of elitists at the core of the event, but it’s not the majority.

I hate to sound callous

No, you fucking revel in it. Why the fuck else would you feel the need to post this?

First you replace them with your straw man (“rich tech bros”) and then burn it down (“tech bros just deserve what they get”)

Well, stay in your basement you smug piece of shit. Mommy will have tendies ready soon.

With that attitude, the only difference between you and the type of rich person you seem to despise, is wealth.

Most people at Burning Man aren't rich. I hung out with a bunch of people who go regularly last night and I imagine less than half even own their own property.

So yeah, you sound pretty callous tbh

Dude shut up. Plenty of non rich people go too. In fact, the chill guy I procure cartridges from is there now and I’m actually concerned. He’s just a normal dude. I mean…he LOVES weed but besides that lol…

Apparently the weather stations in the SoCal desert didn't see it coming at all. Not sure how that's possible, but that's what they said Friday. Tons of flooding in Palm Springs and Vegas too.

I wanted to go to this when I was a teen because it was so counter culture and free spirited. Now you couldn't pay me to go. It's gross what techbros and 1%ers have turned it into.

They're also at the lowest drainage point for that whole valley. Plus, the properties of the lakebed make it so that water is very slow to soak into the ground, so it's going to take a while for things to dry out.

Hey, 0.8 inches is completely acceptable and it gets the job done. It's not the size of the dingy but the motion in the ocean...or in this case it's not how much you fill the graduated cylinder but how dry the soil is.

On a more serious note, this has the potential to become a huge tragedy; there are 10's of thousands of people out there with limited resources and more rain is coming. I hope that things stay under control.

That dry lake bed is like powdered mud, it's so fine that any water instantly makes mud.

Burning man is held on a dry lakebed, funny thing about lakes is that they tend to form in the places water naturally tends to accumulate, it just happens that it's a desert, so normally there's no rain so no water. So basically any rain that falls in the area tends to drain to the burning man playa, while only .8" fell directly on burning man, a decent amount more accumulated there.

The soil there also tends to turn to mud, and there's no real plants with root systems and such to help hold it together.

Apparently many of them tried to get the cops to come out and get rid of the climate protesters they had to drive by on the way in.