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OK, so your just-washed hair froze on your way to your car that didn’t start, but there’s a literal deluge of reasons to be thankful for a cold snap that’s set in this Thanksgiving (even if we’re far from the U.S. where the holiday is celebrated – which, come to think, of it is one more reason to add to the list).

The city is officially urging residents to waste water to their heart’s content as a way to keep pipes from freezing and/or causing problems when warmer weather arrives early next week. While the forecast lows of minus 19 degrees Celsius today and minus 21 degrees Friday are far from the most frigid Longyearbyen is likely to see this winter (even though some scientists say it may be the mildest in recorded history), it is the first significant prolonged cold snap of the season and the hope is to avoid the usual hardships.

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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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