Playa Conditions for 2015

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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Token » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:02 pm

There is a good reason they stake down the JOTS out there.
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Captain Goddammit » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:17 pm

It's dusty and windy.
I'm in the early-entry line (Friday), been here four hours, lots more to go.
God help the general opening day burners...
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by The Hustler » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:22 pm

I'm sitting in Reno, heading up tomorrow via Burner Express, which bypasses the line. Hopefully you won't still be waiting when I arrive.
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by pink » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:15 am

White out. Trying to find out if gate is closed. Probably. And the winds are still picking up.
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Token » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:28 am

No words can describe striking camp in a dust storm.

I got serious envy going for all those out there swinging hammers while pelted by the sandblaster.

My inner eye can smell it.
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by tamarakay » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:44 am

It's freaking awesome out here. So far our structures are holding. More importantly so are our neighbors. 70 miles per hour gusts as per weather service, can't see three feet in front of you. Music is playing. Along with the frantic sounds of rebar being pounded in a hurry. Traffic had been stopped but I'm just now starting to hear some trucks. This is the burning man you hear stories about.
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by The Hustler » Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:45 am

tamarakay wrote:It's freaking awesome out here. So far our structures are holding. More importantly so are our neighbors. 70 miles per hour gusts as per weather service, can't see three feet in front of you. Music is playing. Along with the frantic sounds of rebar being pounded in a hurry. Traffic had been stopped but I'm just now starting to hear some trucks. This is the burning man you hear stories about.
As long as my bike doesn't blow away before I get there!

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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Jackass » Thu Sep 10, 2015 10:57 pm

Jackass wrote:Once the dirt clears, we shall see...Probably going to be colder than a witches' tits after dark...Forecasts can be deceiving.
Nailed it!
Sooner or later, it will get real strange...

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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by ^Rhino! » Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:42 pm

Jackass wrote:
Jackass wrote:Once the dirt clears, we shall see...Probably going to be colder than a witches' tits after dark...Forecasts can be deceiving.
Nailed it!
Indeed you did.
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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Aurelia » Sun Sep 13, 2015 9:31 pm

Actually I decided that the wind was likely going to simply blow me intactly away in my tent

so I relaxed

What a way to go !!

but now I am still here and working on the layers of playa earned
maybe I should not have done early

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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Simon of the Playa » Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:19 am

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Re: Playa Conditions for 2015

Post by Jackass » Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:43 am

The suckiness affirmation...now in progress, watch live!
Sooner or later, it will get real strange...

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