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freeze-proofing the street

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Nagano, 2007.02.17

By keeping the streets wet with onsen water, the people of Nozawa Onsen prevent snow build-up and the formation of ice.

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I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell