It was a wet Saturday night in May.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

On a cold and wet night, emergency teams have been toiling under floodlights to reach survivors, as relatives keep vigil outside.

BBC: New Zealand earthquake: Rescuers work through night

On a cold, wet night in January, I met two young Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad.

NEWYORKER: Betrayed

There's a schedule of pay bumps for overtime, for night shoots, for very-late night shoots, for wet work (rain or snow), for smoky work (cigarettes or manufactured haze) and, on some productions, for showing up in wardrobe that's out of sync with the seasons say, shorts and sandals for a beach scene in the dead of winter.

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