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Burning Man flooding strands tens of thousands at Nevada site; authorities are investigating 1 death

A double rainbow over the Burning Man camp site in rural Nevada on Sunday. More than half an inch of rain fell at the site Friday, with more coming Saturday and Sunday. Organizers closed the festival to vehicles after one fatality was reported. (Getty)

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. — An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert, But some Burning Man revelers said Sunday that their spirits remained unbroken.

“We are a little bit dirty and muddy but spirits are high. The party still going,” said Scott London, a Southern California photographer, adding that the travel limitations offered “a view of Burning Man that a lot of us don’t get to see.”

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