Playa Conditions

Ron · Post by **Ron** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:04 am

I had that thought myself, but I still forwarded it along to my camp. Heh. :)

Ron

X-topher · Post by **X-topher** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:47 am

Maybe the rumor was started to deter tourists and weekenders. I agree with “prepare for the worst and hope for the best”. Nothing will stop me from being there. I was not there in 01 but everyone I know who was there said the weather was pretty bad but nothing they wouldn’t go through again for a good burn. It brought a new level of comradery to BRC that year.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:50 am

I hear the wind scorpions are bad this year ... and who put these motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin playa?

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:08 am

theCryptofishist wrote:Maybe the 2nd email was the hoax...

Activate your next clone Citizen.

Do not be alarmed. This is just a test. If it were not a test, you would be a radioactive vapor.

The Computer is Your Friend. Happiness is mandatory.

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:09 am

I was waiting on the freakin snakes on the playa reference.
I'll keep my camp axe with me just in case.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:14 am

Yeah, I hear that those snakes are bigger than an anaconda and nastier than a hot buttered hedghog.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:17 am

geekster wrote:motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin playa?

Rex. Only he put them on the pliya.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:18 am

capjbadger wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:Maybe the 2nd email was the hoax...
Activate your next clone Citizen.

Do not be alarmed. This is just a test. If it were not a test, you would be a radioactive vapor.

The Computer is Your Friend. Happiness is mandatory.

I'm already a radioactive VIPER.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:23 am

Okay, here's the official word:

This year's playa is exactly like last year, only different. There are sun, wind, dust, heat, darkness, and cold ... just like last year. This year we have changed twiddled the knobs a bit so the amplitude and order of appearance of some of these effects will be somewhat random as to create the chaotic environment we know as burning man.

Please enjoy this year's weather show. We have worked very hard to bring you this experiance. In the event we should decide to crank the wind knob to 11 for a while, applause would be appreciated.

Please ignore any pre-event reports as we are undertaking various tweaks of the system and testing things to make sure they are operational.

Thank you,

BRC Environmental Projection Agency

2006

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:23 am

Someone had to mention Hedgehogs and now I've got this image of Ron Jeremy stuck in my head. Thanks alot.

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:58 am

hahahha

That tag line was actualy taken from a livejournal coversation between myself and a friend in which I "painted" a picture for her of an attack at burning man from a certain art car...

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:19 pm

A hoax hoax?! Could be....

B.

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:03 pm

Rex did it................................

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:06 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Maybe the 2nd email was the hoax...

omfg

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:24 pm

I've heard more people, more different people, say "Dusty as hell" for longer than the Seattle-Vancouver people saying "You've been hoaxed."

It's better to be over-prepared than turned into human ludefisk. If anyone comes up and sneers, "Ha! Ha! Ha! You came prepared for dust! You're a dupe!" tell 'em to buzz off and dry up

Silver 2 · Post by **Silver 2** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:28 pm

OK, here is something I sent out to my local group a couple of hours ago:
Note: B is out there helping with a major art project.

Just got off the phone with B, she was out in Empire so this report is today,
8/17/06. Today is good, hotter than hell (remember she is toting hunks of steel around) but little wind.

However, she described yesterday as her third worse day on the Playa. Dust and wind and more dust and wind. She lost two grommets on her shade shelter yesterday and they only got it covered after they moved the truck to make a windbreak. The roads are rock hard and bumpy and the surface is potato chips with potato chips underneath. (my comment) There are only 200 people out there now but when we all show up those chips will become powder.

B's recommendations: Prep for dust and bring long tent stakes.

She is doing fine and the work is going well.

s

Mozy bonz · Post by **Mozy bonz** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:21 pm

geekster wrote:I hear the wind scorpions are bad this year ... and who put these motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin playa?

Wind scorpions are bad this year

I have seen these they hatch from an egg in the thousands when the temperature is just right and the wind is up about 50 mph. They do this as a survival instinct so they can spread across the desert (you don’t think the walk across the desert do you?) they are about an inch long the come at you like locus in the wind. Sting like a very VERY BIG WASP.

Fucking wind scorpions

Reeve · Post by **Reeve** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:00 pm

Welll damn it...I was looking forward to those epic dust storms...just lookin for a change....although my buddies stayed on playa too long in 2004 and got NAILED by a pretty damn good dust storm that lasted a few days...shit I missed the fun!