Former Obama Administration Solicitor General and MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal on Sunday reported that after a grueling six mile hike through treacherous mud, he escaped the nightmarish disaster that the 2023 Burning Man Festival became when a half inch of rain poured into the normally dry and dusty northern Nevada desert basin hosting the countercultural-ish gathering.
“It was an incredibly harrowing 6 mile hike at midnight through heavy and slippery mud, but I got safely out of Burning Man. Never been before and it was fantastic (with brilliant art and fabulous music)… except the ending,” Katyal wrote on Twitter. It’s not clear if there were any other cable TV legal nerds currently or formerly stranded at the ruined gathering. Other sites are reporting that a number of “real” celebrities escaped on foot as well. A simple search on Google or other resources can return articles about those escapes for readers interested in those stories.