Wind and rain snarled early arrivals to Burning Man, with traffic stalled for hours Sunday on the road to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

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In the hours Saturday night before the event’s gate was set to open, the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory forecasting gusts of up to 45 mph. Organizers put out the word for people already on site to “batten down” and for those en route to hold up in Reno if possible. Traffic was being turned back at Wadsworth, just off Interstate 80.

Conditions improved early Monday and the gate was reopened at 7:30 a.m., according to information streams from the event. Travelers in Reno were told they could proceed; Burner Express Bus service from Reno and San Francisco was departing on schedule.

At 10 a.m., travel time “from gravel to ga

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