Chris Rock and Diplo escaped the treacherous mud-filled Burning Man within the flooded Nevada desert festival Saturday with the assistance of a fan.
The comedian, 57, and the 44-year-old DJ trekked through 6 miles of mud searching for someone to offer them a ride as roughly 73,000 people were stuck on the festival attributable to the weather.
Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, shared a video to his Instagram where he and Rock, who wore a Latest York Knicks jacket, sat within the bed of a pickup truck with five other people and bags of kit.
“A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride out of Burning Man at the back of a pickup,” the DJ wrote in an Instagram video.
“I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz I actually have a show in DC tonight and didn’t wish to let y’all down.”
“Also shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment,” Diplo added.
Heavy rain flooded the often dry land and compelled organizers to postpone the namesake ceremony of the event to be postponed and 1000’s of attendees were told to shelter in place.
One person has died on the festival because the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death got here “during this rain event,” based on NBC San Diego.
The anonymous fan’s truck was a lifeline for the DJ as he raced back to civilization and caught a flight to Washington, D.C. for his 9 p.m. show at Echostage Saturday night.
“Nobody was making it out of burning man they didn’t consider we might walk 6 miles within the mud… nobody believed we might get to dc for the show tonight,” Diplo wrote in an Instagram story post from a personal jet. “but god did”
Rock took to his own Instagram story, sharing a video of the flooded desert following the monsoon thunderstorms that swept through the “Silver State.”
Torrid conditions on the campgrounds forced officials to shut the doorway to the temporary metropolis for the last two days of the festival.
“Because of recent rainfall, the Bureau of Land Management and the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office officials have closed the doorway to Burning Man for the rest of the event,” the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.
The Black Rock Desert stays listed in a Flood Watch as of Sunday morning, based on the National Weather Service, with more rain within the forecast.
The dry lake where the festival is held annually received 0.8 inches of water from a storm Friday night into Saturday turning the often hot and arid land right into a mud-filled nightmare.
Burning Man is described as an annual gathering of individuals to Black Rock Desert where a short lived metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance is built for the crucible of creativity.
