Thousands of Burning Man attendees were stranded in the Nevada desert. It is the latest festival to be disrupted in recent years. What is going on?
, a week-long gathering centered on community, art and culture, and Electric Zoo, a three-day electronic-music festival, are the latest festivals to be heavily disrupted in recent years by factors including the uncontrollable — extreme weather — and the man-made, such as organizers’ poor planning and event management.
Nonetheless, several factors make large festivals prone to disruptions, he added. It is logistically difficult to gather in one place thousands of people who need transportation, accommodation, bathrooms, food, water and other basic necessities. Arranging the layout of the event to avoid “pinch points,” or having to funnel large numbers of people through small spaces, is another challenge, Norman said.
Festivals in remote places, such as Black Rock City, the temporary town in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert where Burning Man is held each year, are especially difficult to pull off because supplies and vendors must be brought in, Norman said “You’re in the middle of nowhere, and so you have to bring that [emergency] infrastructure to where the site is.
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