The tens of thousands of rich, privileged people who had their Labor Day weekend ruined by the mud around the Burning Man festival in a remote part of Nevada have been released, and the “great exodus” has begun, CNN reports.
About 64,000 remained of the original crowd, estimated to have peaked at 72,000 before people started trekking out of the festival site when the site was access to the site was shut down due to dangerous, muddy roads. The eponymous burning of The Man was rescheduled for Monday night, according to an announcement on the festival’s site.