To quote the red cross, location location location…
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Oh, how nice to live on a coast bordering a white area (for now, I suppose)
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I guess if you take a balloon ride east of New Zealand at the wrong time, you can experience a cyclone, a hurricane and a typhoon in rapid succession (repeatedly)…
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Hope Corey is okay. I remember first hearing of Burning Man from King of the Hill and Corey’s constant discussion about it on the old Boing Boing helped me realize it wasn’t some goofy thing dreamed up by Mike Judge.
Any time I heard about it, it just struck me as a nature retreat for the wealthy,a Grateful Dead concert parking lot for people who aren’t that into music, or a Gathering of The Juggalos for Karens. I will probably never have the pleasure of experiencing it, but I don’t wish any harm on the people who travelled to the step on a rainy weekend.
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But of course all attendees prepared properly before setting out to party in an incredibly hostile environment, right?
As on how to make your exit in a situation like this, I’m thinking dirtbike that converts into a hovercraft?
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Never enlist. 
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I was stuck on attending sooner or later; but seeing the contrast between all the neatly arranged vehicles; and the traffic jammed masses to get in and out; kinda blows the whole ~no waste, no ‘moop’, conserve, etc~ mantra out.
I don’t think it would be the exact thing; but I can picture taking a weekend off to lah-dee-dah in a safe urban setting (hard to find now; and also oddly enough an environment where the ‘Burning Man’ originated) would have a similar effect.
The toilets I’ve seen pictured are pretty darn hygienic when compared to the toilets in about any public park now-a-days - mud is mud; as compared to the standard park bathroom with feces overflowing, maybe a needle or two; and maybe even during the winter some sad soul trying to stay warm. By using the port-a-potty as a temporary residence.
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Always plenty to burn about in our early 21st century America.
Too late.
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Corey got out a day ago, helping drive a pair of sick campmates to the hospital. His wife stayed behind to pack down the camp and ensure their site was clean.
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I was curious about this. I knew he was speaking on one of the days.
I also saw that Paul Stamets was there, too, but making the best out of the situation. The elder hippies know how to have a good time in adverse weather (ie, they prepare for it).
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Yes, I know the actual stamets that the character is named for, don’t @ me…
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Beat me to it.
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