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It’s a frosty April morning on the Strathmore set of Mutant World and Jason Cermak is trying to wrap his head around a new line of dialogue.

Sporting army fatigues and a helmet and sitting in a muddy M35 military vehicle that has been lovingly named “Uma,” the actor is supposed to be reporting the climate anomalies of a post-apocalyptic world to his fellow doomsday preppers.

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“It looks like we’re staring down the barrel of some erratic weather patterns,” Cermak yells into a CB radio.

“That’s because it’s ALBERTA!” whispers director David Winning after a few takes of the scene.

Granted it’s not supposed to be Alberta. While today’s scene is being shot in a nondescript cul-de-sac in Strathmore, east of Calgary, the setting of Mutant World is mostly post-apocalyptic small-town Middle America after a meteorite crashes into a nuclear reactor and ends civilization.

But in April, Alberta was offering its own “erratic weather patterns” to the production, which shot in Strathmore, Calgary and the CL Ranch near Springbank. One day it was sunny and summer-like, the next it was a winter wasteland. So the new line was hastily thrown in as cameras rolled.