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What is Burning Man? All you need to know about the festival and floods

A rainbow at the flooded Burning Man site in the Nevada desert [Josh Lease via AFP]

An unusual late-summer storm has turned a weeklong, counterculture festival in the western United States into a sloppy mess.

About 70,000 Burning Man partygoers got stuck in deep mud in the northern Nevada desert amid dwindling water and food supplies.

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