Private planes halted at Burning Man's volunteer-run airport as a storm rips through the Playa

• Burning Man, the annual arts and music festival, is underway in the Nevada desert. • Each year, volunteers build a temporary airport, which typically becomes one of the 100 busiest in the country. • But this year, air traffic in Black Rock City screeched to a halt following an intense storm.

The private plane and charter jets shepherding passengers to Black Rock City, Nevada — the home of Burning Man — have all been grounded after a storm ripped through the desert.

Nearly 100 aircraft landed in the Playa before the operations at 88NV, the Black Rock Municipal Airport, screeched to a halt on Sunday evening. Since then, an air ambulance was the only plane to land.

In a typical year, the airport in the middle of the desert says it transforms into one of the country's 100 busiest, see