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- Thousands of people arrived in Black Rock City, Nevada, over the weekend for Burning Man, which officially began on Sunday.
- Dust storms caused dangerous driving conditions that day, prompting a three-hour closure of city gates.
- Wait times peaked around 10 hours and were still six to seven hours-long on Monday morning.
- During the closure, festival organizers told attendees to return to nearby Reno or stay put on the highway.
Wait times to enter Black Rock City — the temporary city in Nevada where Burning Man is held every August — reportedly hit 10 hours on Sunday after dust storms caused dangerous driving conditions and prompted a three-hour closure of the gates, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.
Most of the 70,000 Burning Man attendees went to the desert this past Sunday, when the festival officially began. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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