Burning Man 2022 came to a close on Sept 5, after returning to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. 
The festival was marked by sandstorms, a heat wave, and at the end, an immense, 15-lane traffic jam. A video shared by Twitter user @ cjyu shows an aerial view of the hours-long traffic jam in the middle of the desert.
Hundreds of cars can be seen lined up as far as the eye can see, across 15 lanes.
‘Tho people love to compare the #Burningman aesthetic to Mad Max… the Exodus from camp is the most Mad Max I’ve felt all week… 5 hours in, two more till I reach the exit gate,’ they tweeted alongside the footage, referring to the post-apocalyptic film series.
The gridlock was particularly brutal with wait times of several hours in temperatures of more than 100 degrees.
The long wait times also burned up a lot of gas. The Burning Man Traffic account on Twitter announced late Monday afternoon that motorists should fuel up in Gerlich because the closer Empire Store gas station had run out of gas.
(via TMX)
(via TMX)
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