 The weekend before shooting was scheduled to wrap, a freak storm  dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on the supposedly drought plagued town.  Labourers shoveled the snow from the buildings balconies and roofs  and distributed 89 dump trucks worth of dry soil on the ground.  Backhoes created an 8 foot tall rampart of snow just beyond camera  sight lines for the remaining 6 days of shooting.