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00:00 Up in smoke in a ceremonial fire,
00:03 a giant effigy called the Man is torched
00:06 in a pyrotechnic display in the Nevada desert
00:09 to end the week-long annual counterculture
00:12 Burning Man Arts Festival.
00:14 Thousands of people were not there to see it.
00:17 They drove out en masse after being stranded in mud for days.
00:21 With the rain and everything,
00:23 I'm really glad I didn't bring my vehicle now
00:24 because with the mud it would have been,
00:26 yeah, but the roads dried up quite well,
00:29 so I'm really impressed with how fast everything is moving.
00:32 Festival goers were caught off guard
00:34 when torrential rainfall turned the normally dry desert
00:37 into rivers of mud, making the roads impassable.
00:41 There was two or three months' worth of rain in a matter of hours.
00:45 Officials on Monday said the weather had cleared up enough
00:47 so people could head home.
00:49 For some, heading out was an ordeal.
00:54 I got trapped in the mud and everything was shut down
00:56 and getting out was a nightmare.
00:58 But this morning we were digging,
00:59 we were on our hands and knees
01:00 digging mud out of our tires.
01:03 Burning Man is the world's largest counterculture festival.
01:07 Every year, tens of thousands of people
01:08 gather in the middle of the Nevada desert
01:10 to see installation art and participate in dance parties
01:14 in what's billed as an undefinable event.
01:17 Tickets cost hundreds of dollars.
01:19 The event is remote on the best of days.
01:22 There is an emphasis on self-sufficiency.
01:25 (water splashing)