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The Burning Man Festival, held three years post the Covid lockdown period, brought in colossal traffic queues as people traveled from all over the globe to be there.

Burning Man Festival 2022: Attendees stuck in 8-hour-long traffic congestion on Black Rock Desert road, pics go viral

The Nevada Desert became home to many people from across the world for the 9-day music and cultural festivities, and with it came the queues of traffic. Most people got stuck in an 8-hour-long traffic jam as many tried to leave the venue together. The music festival was being held in Black Rock, and the vehicle queues occurred around that area with thousands of cars lined up. The Burning Man Festival received a fantastic response three years after the Covid lockdown.

It was a week of love and tears, heat and dust,growth and joy,discovery and acceptance,release and renewal. Safe journeys until next year. 🔥 The Man burns, 2022 (photo by Manuel Pinto) pic.twitter.com/3Y2LQ6oBQF
— Burning Man Project (@burningman) September 6, 2022

The official Twitter handle of the organizers also acknowledged the queues and traffic snarl, advising people to hang on until the situation improved.

Exodus wait time is over 9 hours. If you are still in #BRC, wait to leave. If you are on Gate Road, turn off your vehicle to conserve gas, and be patient. Teams are working to keep the roads safe and get everyone home safely. Gas up in Gerlach due to a fuel shortage in Empire.
— Burning Man Project (@burningman) September 6, 2022

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Photos of the long traffic jam went viral, and pictures from traffic police posted online gave a birds-eye view of the traffic tail. Pictures showed 15 lanes of cars moving slowly at a snail’s pace bumper to bumper.

Traffic out of #BRC has paused due to multiple Motorist Assistance needs in the Empire, Nixon, and Wadsworth area. If you are leaving tonight, please turn off your vehicles to conserve gas, and stay in your vehicle. Traffic will resume as soon as it is safe to do so.
— Burning Man Project (@burningman) September 6, 2022

Burning Man festivities bring in memories of Mad Max, and people felt being a part of the cult movie set when they idled around for 8 hours to the exit gate. The advice from the tweet organizers was to listen to 94.5 FM, a channel of Burning Man. The 'burners’ as the exit movement is called, got quite searing temperatures with the heatwave looming in the western parts of the USA along with the fuel crisis.People came in weird costumes to party throughout the nine days. Burned an effigy at the end of the festivities called the Burning Man. The festival schedule included the Labour Day holidays. This Festival has been up and running since 1989.

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