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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
If your refering to a snow avalanche that was not the case.There is no way any snow can avalance to where the Old Man was.
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The night before, there was a torrential downpour after an extended dry spell - ripe conditions for an avalanche, or rock slide.
As to whether he would or would not be in favor of a small municipal meals and lodging tax, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a short story about a bunch of presumptuous folks that claimed to be the intellectual brethren of the Old Stone Face. All were proven impostors.
But I suppose one of the beauties of the Old Man is that it inspired people to project their own values onto him as a way of seeking the validation of some higher authority.