I understand this is completely off brand for my channel, but I feel I must show what's going on on the ground that we are getting through it together and going to be okay. #burningman #breakingnews #burningman2023
Burning iMan 2023:: As ive said before and itll never change -- this is simply a desert monsoon storm. Thats all it is. Its not a natural disaster. Its not a toxic mud or rain conspiracy. Its not a government plan to separate people or kill people off. Its not a psy-op. Its just a desert monsoon storm --- worst case scenario it will be a longer than planned dry camping experience (i.e. camping without your rv or whatever hooked up to electricity and septic).... Nothing more. Nothing less. Theyll probably learn, or hopefully learn, to bring more food, water, storm supplies, in furure burning man events because a storm can always happen..... As for the people that died, were perhaps electrocuted, you cannot play with electricity or a gas/any generator in the rain because a generator puts out ekectric current. Basic knowledge. Still not a natural disaster, still not akin to hurricane Katrina, etc. As long as the people out there stay calm and help each other they will all be just fine...... P S. Don't try to drive out people, if your wheels are spinning, because that will bury yoyr vehicle to the axles. Lol. Just wait for the ground to dry.
"Been going to burning man for 13 years. never more than 5 minutes of rain. but this time it rained for hours. " - comment from regular burner. its one of the hottest , drying parts in the world. they wont even let people go out there without proving they have enough water. so yes this is highly unusual. I wonder what the carbon footprint of burning man is?
@@brightlight3520 yeah well this time there was a monsoon storm... I grew up on a horse ranch in the desert. Lived on a ranch for over three decades. That's longer than 13 trips to any weekend festival. Now I live off grid on my property. Weather happens. I stand by my previous comment. Suck it up buttercups.
National Emergency? That place isn't meant for life. It's empty 99% of the year. And this only hurting a few tens of thousands of rich people. I've been a few times and it's fun. But this has happened before and will happen again. Buying a ticket in February is kinda risky.
Dude! You did so good on this video! You really captured the community and disproved the news. Or better yet, you exposed the fake news outlets. So good to see that everyone made the most of it.
we need more people who do journalists' jobs, because somehow.. the original journalists are no more able to do it. thanks for sharing a part of reality with us!
"Burning Man is destroyed by the climate! Everybody in panic!" Nothing but lies from the mainstream media... typical! Clearly an agenda at play - pushing the climate change narrative.
The media can't stand the fact that these attendees are coming together, supporting one another, finding the good in a less than good situation, and refusing to freak out.
When that girl said there’s good people everywhere I got teary eyed… I have agoraphobia because I’m scared of people, I hope to one day get the guts to experience something soo glorious!
Go to regional burns. Some are as small as 300 people. I know many introvert and socially anxious burners. I even saw one girl reading a book. Small burns are pretty chill.
@@defenestrated23 Heck yeah, I just went to a Regional with less than 100 people, very inclusive and supportive, plenty of spaces to catch your breath and chill
My son is there from Maui. It is his first time and I am glad it is more positive than the news is portraying. I know my son is probably making the very best of it . Thank you for sharing your inside view.
A lot of people are forgetting that officially, the event isn’t over until Monday at 6 PM. So we’re still a day ahead of when most people planed to leave. One of the 10 principles of burning man is radical self-reliance. Each participant is expected to bring enough food and water for themselves to last as long as they plan to be out in the desert with a decent buffer. In my opinion, there really isn’t a much better group of people to end up stranded for an extra three or four days at most. Looking like I might get out of here on Tuesday which was my intended goal to begin with
That’s a good point… but still, it’s odd that if anyone wanted to leave, the authorities would stop them. I saw on the survival guide that the man burns at 9pm Monday night and Chapel of Babel are being burnt Tuesday midnight (Monday night). Sanitation trucks are getting through (thank goodness right) according to the wet playa guide.
A lot of people start leaving on Friday. I estimate everyone might be home next weekend. Self reliance is also taking care of your neighbors in tents too. How are they doing?
food is the last thought on their minds, thye have enough weed and grass there to chill out the time until they can gallop away in the sunset when its dry enough to leave,
Thanks for the great vid! Festivals are all about coming together, helping, discovering new friends, chilling, making the most of the time while you are there.
Issues are vehicles can't get in or out, sanitation issues if porta potties are not emptied, and lack of food and water if stay extends a long time. Basically, it's nearly 80,000 people stuck in mud over an extended period of time. But what can go wrong? I agree, not an emergency now, but could become one.
GODS WARNING!!! A FINAL WAKEUP CALL!!! REPENT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND!!!! EVERY THING WILL BE BURNT UP!!! REPENT AND GIVE GOD GLORY THE JUDGEMENT HAS BEGUN!!! Glorifying a burning man mind blowing you will manifest your delusional reality if you don’t repent!!!
Awesome footage, it was nice to see how this unusual weather brought people together and according to the interviewees turned the whole event a little more back to the roots. Thanks.
I go to a winter burn every year here in Austin and there is one in the summer too. The weather for both is usually very unpredictable! The extreme weather always brings us together and makes each burn memorable. My least favorite burn was the muddy one lol. It is impossible to walk and is so hard to clean, but we still had some great moments even then. This January came in close second since we did not burn unfortunately due to a wind storm, and it was also very strange because they cut the music at midnight. The music is what makes the soup cook! Im glad yall made the best of it. Happy Burn!!
Update 9:07 pm Sept 3. Our camp is 80% packed up, roads in the city are passable and improving fast. HEAT came with a forklift and took the skeleton of our rock wall down which is now packed up. Not sure how the gate road is, but people are leaving successfully. The man, temple, and chapel have not burned yet.
I really don't care brother. For those of us living paycheck-to-paycheck. This seems like a humongous waste. I'm not a cold-hearted bastard . I hope all you guys are okay . I find it extremely ironic and funny. On the first day y'all are stuck in traffic and now y'all are stuck there because of rain
Best film of what's going on from all I've watched. 2 or 3 news vlips said 1 person died in their headlines but provided no actual reporting on that, they seemed more panicked/shocked and apocalyptic about BRC, than I'd think most or any people whom I know went this year. Thank you for your common sense ground level reporting, with a "foot license" to counter all of the aerial news broadcast, hoovering. 😅 6/8 inches of Clay slurry, is the most appropriately accurate description of the wet ground!🎉 a mud sculpture competition would have been fun! But you're able to pack up and head out safely already and that's great! I hope enough people stick around for any burns and for "no trace left behind" pick up. ❤ and y'all get to respective homes safely and without further incident. What do you think this years gathering will be remembered for/by the most? Happy State of Emergency Burner 🔥
Thank you so much for this! I survived hurricane Harvey in a travel trailer right outside of Houston. Obviously slightly different national emergencies, but similar discrepancy in the reporting. In my experience, people really show up for each other and create community and I'm happy to see that after just the apocalypse posting from major news sources
$1,000 just to get in there? Holy crap! But nobody took their garbage home and stayed to help clean up the mess city of charge them $2,000. They could have spent an extra 8 hours and helped clean up the mess instead of spending nine and a half hours in a traffic jam wasting gas😅
Farmers, ranchers, sailors, etc. actually listen to weather reports and plan accordingly. Weather reports mean very little to people that live in cities... until they leave the city and go somewhere where the weather can make a big difference.
I just found your channel thanks to this video. The brother of a close friend of mine was there this year and in my search of what might be happening to him found this video. Then subscribed and watched the most recent video you uploaded eight hours ago. Anyway, you are an amazing videographer and am looking forward to watching future videos. I have a feeling your channel is going to explode with more subscribers and viewers thanks to this one video,
Anyone familiar with dry lakes knows one thing. If it starts to rain, pack up as fast as you can, and get the hell off the lake bed. Those people think they will be leaving in a day or two. They have no idea how long it takes for a wet lake bed to become dry enough to drive on. They will be there for a week.
I was thinking that as well. I hope they’re able to get out and I certainly wish them the best. I just think the evacuations won’t be happening till 5-6 days.
I agree with you if it water there for a long time, then it would take awhile. Being it was a dry lake already then got some rain, thinking it wouldn't be as long
You are awesome! Thank you for posting this. I was on playa for the first time in 2007, when someone went rogue and burned the man at the beginning of the event, and when I got home, there were headlines "Arsonist ruins Burning Man for tens of thousands" or some such hilarious and out-of-touch thing. Thank you for going around capturing the joy and the resilience of burners. Of course burners would figure out how to have a good time while the press got lost in selling clicks!
Realistic really??? Looks more like adults with minds of little children under a strong delusion of reality!!!! EVERY KNEE WILL BOW AND CONFESS JESUS IS LORD!!!! REPENT!!!!JUDGEMENT IS HERE!!!
Seriously, it's rained out there before. Just wasn't starlink and cell service before, so no one knew or cared. 70k mostly selfie girls and tech frat boys, gonna make more of it then it is.
Here’s something. Burning man represents a huge waste of resources in a place that isn’t good at sustaining life by default. How many hundreds of thousands of gallons of gas consumed for this wannabe Woodstock without music
for now, wait until they run out of food and water, 70,000 people need alot of resources, what happens if it continues to rain for a week or more? that's when the problems show up .
Thank u for showing the silver lining here. Astrologically this is Saturn (hardship) in Pisces (water) with sea God Neptune also in Pisces. I was delighted by your interviews.
Thanks for filming this, it was very informing and interesting. Proves that people will pull together and help each other. The first video, on Sunday, that I watched said some people had starting stealling already, was/is there any trurh to that? Just wondering, thanks again.❤
Thanks for this non-apocalyptic perspective. I'm sure this will be a Burn of legendary status. The mutual suffering mixed with high spirits is what brings everyone together!
You've got to appreciate how all major news media outlets quickly report on rich people being stuck in the mud while they ignore the suffering of the poor every single day.
Please, if you know anyone who was there, please tell them to check their skin in case they had any kind of abrasion, and to watch out for cellulitis. It’s a severe bacterial infection. It’s a huge risk, if any mud contacted with any abrasion. Tell them to immediately take photos of any cuts to monitor the size of redness. If the red area grows, they should immediately seek a medical professionals opinion. 🙏 ❤
The pH of the playa is around 10. Very few organisms that infect humans can live at that pH. And those that might be able to can't survive normal pH and certainly not skin which is slightly acidic. So, rinse with fresh water (pH 7) and all will be fine.
@@xsleep1 I really appreciate your input. I’m an oddball, in that I find published medical research fascinating. Will be doing a research binge based on your comment. 🎉 I figure it’s of benefit for people to know how to monitor. I knew someone battling cellulitis, and it got scary to successfully stave off. I stumbled on researching the use of some honeys to treat infections where antibiotics weren’t effective. I only was seeking a way to get a dressing to stick, as I’m allergic to adhesives. It’s endlessly fascinating to me. Especially knowing that archeologists found 2 thousand years old pots of honey, unaffected by time. 🍯 - Bless you for your informed perspective.
When i was young i went to an outdoor weekend rock show at Pocono 500 raceway. We had torrential rain Friday night and most of Saturday. We did get to see Rod Stuart, ELP, Badfinger. But the show was mostly a washout. There were lots of washed out tents and soaking sleeping bags. Travel in mud was difficult. Some cars had to be towed out of the mud. But nobody said we were trapped. Nobody was freaking out. We still had a good time.
A little bitty piece of the real story. I get it though. Keep spirits high as long as you can. Hell is coming in f the rain don’t stop. I hope for a dry week and speedy drying of the lake bed but in all honesty it’s not looking good. Good luck out there.
Well, I actually think that people at burning man, covering it with boots on the ground, are also a little over-reactionary, and being a bit defensive. It was declared a natural disaster, not a national emergency. And the news I’ve seen on it, was covering it pretty accurately, but just from their perspective.
@@crystalbluebutterfly mainstream media was more hyperbolic than the Burners, though some may have been a bit protectively defensive about how well everyone has gotten along, it is part of the party event rules. People at EDC get defensive about claiming a PLUR community even if more than +200 phones are stolen and there's not a toilet seat to be found in any portapotty, until their phone is stolen, or they have a negative experience. Moderation of perspective, definitely requires a more complex self observation skill, of intent, and POV, to put balanced words to. MSM has its bottomline- so do individuals.
@@MajICReiki I kind of relate it to when BLM marched through my neighborhood, if you were out in the all white suburbs watching helicopter footage on FOX News I'm sure it looked terrifying, they kind of have to push narratives on their audience, keep them scared in their all white suburbs.
This happens every five or seven years at Roskilde festival. All the unprepared posers leave and the festival becomes more low key but it usually leads to nice social interactions with random people in another way.
Shiii When I went to Bonnaroo in 2004 a tornado came every night and knocked all the tents down and turned it from a green oasis into a mud pit. People were lined up at the first aid tent for their busted up feet but we were one of the few people that brought mud boots and got spared that. But we slept in our car after walking many miles in the mud every night to see the shows. I wanted a shirt that said I survived Bonnaroo 2004. The media is traumatizing it so they can justify their global warming story. I guarantee you nobody gave an F back in 2004.
I am from India and have lived through this mud in the whole season of Monsoon. I used to walk barefoot on mud and once mud is gone wash the feet in put the shoes back. Its surprise to see that it has been declared Emergency
Ask the same questions Wednesday or Thursday when most supplies and dope have been exhausted. Everyone is good for a day or 2 but after 3 days ppl are gonna be really in trouble. Oh yeah. The sanitation issue is going to deteriorate very quickly if the Jons are not cleaned.
Exactley what i was thinking, these people are shitting in random holes in the ground....70,000 people are all shitting in random holes all around, and its flooding..... #DreamersDisease
@catlover 4479.... Dude, does the truth scare you? The port a Johns are not being emptied. The sewage because of the rains are mixing with the shit people are leaving in shallow pits. Not to mention the alkalinity content of that soil is higher once hydrated. Go walk through wet Lyme and leave it on without washing. Half those cars under bodies are rusting as we speak. Not to mention the dysentery/ typhoid and trenchfoot/mouth. People at Woodstock learned the hard way. Its plain facts.....
Good job with this Judson, well produced. And not just interviews, but interactions (the handshakes and hugging as with Alex), and well done edits, "i think there's some good people everywhere." I liked the composition of opening this from inside the bus looking outwards, then getting fully out into it all. Good pacing (little too fast on the rainbow shots montage). You spoke well and responsively, in tone and stature, with your guests, not just asking rote questions but conversing, minimally, time-efficiently, to capture atmosphere and actual accounts of lived experience. The interview with the older fella was also beneficial in setting some context of experience (as has been heard elsewhere, 'hardship' brings people together). This was a fairly reasonable selection of interview subjects. Obviously this could have been done to cast a broader range of experience to include more of the negative, as I'm sure some folks 'weren't having it,' but this was reasonable enough to counter the more extreme take of this event as a national emergency (though these things can sometimes get out of hand, 70k people is a lot to manage). EDIT: Ah, I see your tagline, "Supremely watchable, curiously relatable" yeah well, you're hitting the mark with that. Good on you for having your target format/style locked down so well.
I've been searching for the last 2 hours to get an update on what's really happening. 👁️ Thanks bro this is by far the best report on the internet so far. 👍 Pray for everyone to make it out safe and sound. 🙏
Awesome video duder! You happen to have any contact info for the Alaskans you interviewed in front of the lit-up planets? I'm up in AK and always looking for like-minded folks up here:)
Thank you so much!!! The media freakin' SUCKS. This is the best news report out there. Husband and friends on the playa and he is reporting nothing but good things. As a 23 year burner who had to stay home this year it has been disheartening to observe the bullshit being circulated about this and the horrible comments. You've captured the burning man spirit that I know and love and miss!!
@@loreicmaster Is that related to what the mockingbird media is saying that there was a "virus" that was "discovered" in that person who died at the location?
The rainbow is God’s reminder to Himself to not judge the world again with a total world mountain covering flood again because of our sin, idolatry and rebellion against Him, the God of the Bible, Creator of the Earth and Universe. He needed to see that rainbow of His love and mercy when He looked upon that event. The last judgment upon the whole Earth physical will be fire that will melt the elements, a total heap of a global molten lava like mass upon every square inch of Earth. That was a rainbow of mercy and promise. It was stolen by that community and they have no right to it, nor to deceive with it, nor to corrupt it.
GODS WARNING!!! A FINAL WAKEUP CALL!!! REPENT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND!!!! EVERY THING WILL BE BURNT UP!!! REPENT AND GIVE GOD GLORY THE JUDGEMENT HAS BEGUN!!! Glorifying a burning man mind blowing you will manifest your delusional reality and desire for burning man if you don’t repent!!!
I've been to BM a few times since the early 1990's and this is common place. The media is going all crazy over the rain this year but of the 9 or 10 times I've gone, I got rain 2 times. This is nothing new for Burners. I remember the first time I got rain, one of the rangers outside the fence line was chasing down trash and got his truck stuck on the railroad tracks and the mud was so bad they couldn't get it off. They just left it and a train came by a week later and plowed in to it and kept on going.
The kids are alright. Seeing this post gives me hope for the next generation. And you even managed to land an impromptu interview with an actual Cacophonist from the '91 Burn!
Thank you for sharing this to help us better understand what’s really going on down on the ground. Glad to see that things seem to be ok for the most part. Please keep us posted with any other updates.
Great job Judson, great report. You're a natural at this kind of thing. People usually say don't give up your day job, but you could mate! No surprise this is trending. Well done. Ps yes, Trent did post an aerial report.
