Burning Man Attendees Wait Up to 8 Hours to Get Into Festival After Dust Storm

People waited in line for hours to get into the annual Burning Man festival on Monday, August 25, after a https://newswire.storyful.com/story/328988 dust storm battered Nevada's https://newswire.storyful.com/story/329017 Black Rock Desert on the festival's opening weekend. Burning Man organizers warned that it could take several hours for drivers to get into the festival gate from the highway. 'Due to variable weather conditions over the past few days, wait times from the eight-mile playa entrance on County Route 34 to the gate are expected to range six-eight hours today but could change with the weather,' https://x.com/bmantraffic/status/1960002516974002402 officials said . At one point on Monday, https://x.com/bmantraffic/status/1960026236790399200 organizers said the wait time to get into the festival was eight hours and 40 minutes. Jennifer Johnson (‌@‌jeniuslife) took drone footage of the cars and RVs lined up to get into the festival on Monday. 'The line to enter Burning Man after a stormy night. The sun rose, the sand dried, the gates are open and now the journey begins,' Johnson https://www.instagram.com/p/DNyGixG4ukg/ wrote on Instagram about the footage. The festival runs through September 1. (Footage by jeniuslife/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)