“Scott McGuire, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Reno office, said on Friday that even a one-hundredth of an inch of rain can cause problems for the festival grounds.”
About 73,000 people are stuck on a dry lakebed with the gate and airport closed and orders to conserve food and water. A quarter-inch of rain could fall on Sunday alone. The event that sells radical self-reliance is now relying on the sheriff, the Bureau of Land Management and borrowed cell towers.