Burning Man is underway in the Black Rock Desert, but weather conditions have already impacted the event.
As we've been following, the gate to the playa closed Sunday night and reopened around 7:30 a.m. Monday morning.
Some burners were turned around in Wadsworth due to heavy wind and rain. Others made it up to Nixon, where a few vendors have set up shop. The vendors range from jewelers to clothing shops like Kimono Dave
Mike Chuda works for the company, and he says he had to take extra precautions to protect the tent over the weekend.
"We had to take our sign down. We weren't expecting that," Chuda said. "The wind was in such a perfect angle that it was bending our booth forward. So that was pretty wild."
Chuda says with the playa shuttered a few miles north, he didn't see an up-tick in visitors to the booths in Nixon.
Just next door to Kimono Dave is Gato Montes. Jonny Gato and his older brother sell leather shoes, bags, and other accessories.
Gato also says not as many people showed up because of the turnaround at Wadsworth.
"The flow kind of stopped last night, unfortunately," Gato said. "But, hey, that's the way she goes."
Gato says this is his third time out at Burning Man, but he's never been to the playa since he's not much of a partier. As far as the weather, he says his booth didn't have as much of a problem standing through it.
"Luckily, my booth is the heaviest booth on the strip here with the leather," Gato said. "I had to tighten down some of my personal items, but everything was good."
Even though conditions at the playa haven't exactly been favorable so far, there's plenty of people still making the most of their experience, whether at Black Rock City, or Nixon.
