Chris Rock & Diplo Escape Flooded Burning Man After Hitching A Ride With Fan!

Things haven’t been easy crusing at Burning Man this 12 months.

For those that haven’t been maintaining, a large rainstorm left Nevada’s Black Rock Desert fully flooded over the weekend, thus stranding greater than 70,000 attendees. Local officers requested festival-goers to “shelter in place” as a result of inclement climate and preserve their meals and water. Organizers even have requested anybody touring to Burning Man to show round and head again house. Per the competition’s site visitors web page on X (Twitter) on Saturday, they’ve shut down the Black Rock City gates and won’t enable any automobiles on the grounds aside from emergency automobiles:

“The gate and airport in and out of Black Rock City remain closed. Ingress and egress are halted until further notice. No driving is permitted except for emergency vehicles. If you are in BRC, conserve food, water, and fuel, and shelter in a warm, safe space.”

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As of Sunday, the gates are nonetheless closed, and organizers instructed visitors proper now to “stay safe.” This means hundreds of individuals are nonetheless stranded within the desert, and it’s unknown when they are going to be given the all-clear to return house since extra heavy rainfall and thunderstorms are taking place all through Sunday. Sadly, a press launch from the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office additionally revealed there was one casualty, which occurred “during this rain event,” per a Saturday press launch from the sheriff’s division.

Awful.

But two individuals who managed to flee Burning Man? Chris Rock and Diplo. The 58-year-old comic had been in attendance and documented the expertise of being trapped on the competition on Instagram Stories. Per Entertainment Tonight, Chris shared in a since-expired submit that “because of the flooding, the port-o-potties reportedly can’t be emptied,” including:

“And because the gates are closed, people can’t get in to fill generators or deliver supplies.”

Later on Saturday morning, he shared a video of the heavy mud making it virtually unimaginable to stroll across the camp space. This sounds horrible! However, it seems Chris ultimately made it out – with the assistance of Diplo.

The DJ took to the ‘gram to share a video of him, the actor, and different folks within the mattress of a pickup truck leaving Burning Man. According to Diplo, they’d walked for six miles earlier than a fan ended up providing them a trip. He instructed followers in a caption of the clip:

“I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz i have a show in dc tonight and didnt want to let yall down. Also shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment.”

In the video, Diplo famous that “all Chris could think about was a f**king cold brew” following their escape. You can see the submit (under):

Wow. They obtained very fortunate. The group then obtained a trip with “hippies with a van in the next town” and made a take care of them to “give [them] a two-hour ride to the airport.” See (under):