Muddy roads flooded by an unusual desert rainstorm that stranded tens of thousands of people for days at the Burning Man counterculture festival have dried up enough to allow a mass exodus from the site in the Southwestern United States.
Organisers of the event in the state of Nevada said they started to let traffic flow out of the main road on Monday even as they urged festival-goers to delay their exit to help ease traffic. About two hours after the rush began, organisers estimated a wait time of about five hours.
