Hei! Boo here... I started writing this as we waited to hear whether we were being evacuated from the student barracks up here in Nybyen; a big storm was about to hit Longyearbyen (with 80mph winds and 50-100mm of rainfall expected). With unseasonably warm weather and land saturated with water from a storm a few weeks ago which triggered really bad landslides, more...
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