Over the weekend, the Burning Man festival turned into a muddy mess because of unprecedented rain. The mud was so sticky and hard to navigate because the festival takes place in a dry lake bed where the water can’t run off anywhere. People who tried to leave the festival in their cars or RVs got stuck, and some people walked several miles to the main road in order to get out. Local authorities issued a driving ban until Monday afternoon.
Sadly, many Burning Man attendees abandoned their vehicles and left behind hordes of trash in the mud, a Nevada sheriff said. The ditched cars and heaps of trash are scattered across a…