January 2, 2016

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Work crews are moving tons of slush, and experts are continuing to evaluate the risk of flood and avalanches, in parts of Longyearbyen where homes, roads and a pedestrian bridge have been impacted, The Governor of Svalbard announced Saturday afternoon.

The pedestrian bridge at Perleporten and a nearby snowmobile trail have been closed for several days, and the road in Adventdalen was blocked at Bolterdalen for a few hours New Year’s Eve, due to heavy flooding and slush resulting from a freakish heat wave that resulted a record temperature of nine degrees Celsius on Wednesday. The heat, combined with occasionally heavy rain, dissolved the immense snowfall that triggered the Dec. 19 avalanche that buried 11 homes and killed two people.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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