Diplo and Chris Rock barely made it out of Burning Man.
When monsoon thunderstorms left 1000’s of pageant attendees stranded in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert on Saturday, the DJ was decided to point out as much as his Washington, D.C. present that night — and a stranger got here to each of their rescues.
“A fan supplied Chris Rock and I a trip out of Burning Man at the back of a pickup,” the 44-year-old, whose actual identify is Thomas Wesley Pentz, captioned an Instagram video of their escape.
“I legit walked the aspect of the highway for hours with my thumb out cuz I’ve a present in dc tonight and didnt need to let yall down,” he wrote, joking that each one Rock, 58, “might take into consideration was a f—king chilly brew.”
Diplo concluded, “Shoutout to this man for making the good buy of a truck not figuring out it was for this actual second.”
The group subsequently hitched a trip with “hippies with a van within the subsequent city” and “negotiat[ed] a deal to offer [them] a two-hour trip to the airport.”
The Grammy winner posted photos of himself protected and sound onboard a aircraft after the tour.
“They didn’t imagine we’d stroll six miles within the mud. Nobody believed we’d get to DC for the present tonight,” he captioned a mud-stained selfie. “However God did.”
Later that night, the songwriter gave his followers an replace after a three-hour set.
“For these of you who suppose I wasn’t at DC, I simply obtained achieved DJing,” he mentioned whereas filming from a bath. “Mud nonetheless on my face. I’m in a f–king 4 Seasons. Why would I be at Burning Man nonetheless, you idiots?”
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Diplo was on the pageant on Friday to carry out a set from a sizzling air balloon, with rain pummeling the desert later that night and into Saturday.
Amid a “shelter in place” order and requests by pageant organizers to preserve meals and water, the doorway has been closed for the “the rest of the occasion,” which was anticipated to run into Monday.
Rock gave glimpses of the pandemonium, writing through Instagram Tales that “due to the flooding, the port-o-potties reportedly can’t be emptied and since the gates are closed, folks can’t get in to fill turbines or ship provides.”
With a flash flood watch in impact by Monday, it’s unclear when the 70,000 Burning Man attendees will get the all clear to depart.
