Diplo and Chris Rock had a fortunate escape from the rain-soaked quagmire on the Burning Man competition after a fan with a truck gave them a raise to the airport.
Thunderstorms left 1000’s of competition attendees stranded in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert on Saturday.
Though the location of the occasion is often dry and dusty attributable to its desert location, heavy rain has engulfed it in mud closing roads out and in. Revellers have been instructed to take shelter in place and preserve their meals till flash flood warnings are lifted.
Regardless of being stranded on the competition, Diplo was decided to make it to Washington D.C. for a gig, and he and Rock received some assist from a fan with a car able to getting via the mud.
“A fan supplied Chris Rock and I a experience out of Burning Man behind a pickup,” the 44-year-old DJ captioned an Instagram video displaying their escape from the ill-fated occasion.
“I legit walked the facet of the highway for hours with my thumb out cuz I’ve a present in dc tonight and didnt wish to let yall down,” he added. “Shoutout to this man for making the sensible buy of a truck not realizing it was for this actual second.”
Diplo, actual title is Thomas Wesley Pentz, said that he and Rock then hitched a experience with “hippies with a van within the subsequent city” who drove them two hours to the closest airport.
“They did not consider we’d stroll six miles within the mud. Nobody believed we’d get to DC for the present tonight,” he continued in one other publish. “However God did.” In a while Saturday night, the star filmed himself in a bath after he completed the gig.
Rock wrote on his Instagram Story that “due to the flooding, the port-o-potties reportedly cannot be emptied and since the gates are closed, individuals cannot get in to fill mills or ship provides.”
With flood warnings in place till Monday, it’s unclear when different Burning Man attendees will get the all clear to go away or be evacuated. A loss of life that occurred on the competition is at present underneath investigation.
