Photo: Two residents forced to evacuate their homes ‘find their own accommodations’ at Svalbard Museum

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Two people forced to abandon their homes due to an intense rainstorm that is presenting a significant landslide risk indulge in a mid-afternoon slumber Tuesday afternoon in the windowsills at Svalbard Museum. The city of Longyearbyen is asking displaced residents to find their own emergency housing if possible. The evacuation is scheduled to continue until at least Wednesday. Photo by Marion Purdhon / Icepeople.

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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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