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Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the...

Burning Man organizers said the mass exodus officially began Monday at 2 p.m.

Partygoers stranded for days at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm were allowed to start leaving Monday afternoon after muddy roads dried up enough for them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert. An unusual late-summer storm turned the week-long Burning Man fest into a sloppy mess, with tens of thousands stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets. The gathering in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno attracts nearly 80,000 artists, musicians and activists for...

Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the...

Attendees were urged to “shelter in place” and conserve food, water and fuel amidst water-logged conditions

Tens of thousands of partygoers stranded at the Burning Man counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert. Event organizers said in the morning that it was still too wet for a safe mass departure of RVs and other vehicles […]

Partygoers stranded at the Burning Man festival by a storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday, but officials said conditions were still too dangerous.

Event organizers officially lifted a driving ban Monday afternoon and said "exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City" – the makeshift city that's erected annually for the event.

Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the...

At least one death has been reported but festival organizers say it wasn't weather-related.