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THE-UNEXPECTED-DELUGE-INDEX SCORE 9 Not burgers but raincoats. Waterproofs. Mackintoshes. Whatever you want to call them, if they’re in plentiful supply, your festival’s probably a washout, weather-wise. But sometimes a high mud/crack index can make your day. Like that time at Burning Man - you remember - the sun burning into our flesh as we danced barefoot in the sand you were so fucked up, man, covered in pine cones, speaking Paiute - then someone saw the cloud. Like some monumental mother-ship, the rain cloud crept towards us with the promise of wet relief. An hour later it finally arrived and 10,000 people danced it across the desert. Diluted suntan lotion made our eyes sting like paper-cuts but we didn’t care. And to be fair, few of us wore macs.