The slide gathered mass, growing to a nearly 6-foot-thick, 160-foot-wide onslaught of snow, according to the gendarme service in the alpine city of Chamonix.
While condemning the stunt, opposition leaders have pleaded for leniency for the musicians, and said the case was emblematic of the wider prosecutorial onslaught they say demonstrators are facing here.
But, although Emanuele Giaccherini flashed a couple of efforts just wide, the expected onslaught never came.
Stokes, brilliantly unfettered, was utterly indiscriminate in his prolonged onslaught: fast, slow, wide, straight, full, short, it all went the distance.
It has been a week since the first storm surge wrecked the promenade in Aberystwyth - it was then followed by days of high tides which continued the onslaught leaving wide-spread damage along the Welsh coast.
John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, told the Guardian: "With the exception of a commitment to phase out all coal-fired power stations within a decade, the year of the Paris climate talks has coincided with an unexpected onslaught on a wide range of schemes and policies designed to support the development and uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
But it has little effect on the grid's overall ability to handle weather-related onslaughts that hit wide areas or a big cyber-attack.Microgrids, with their own electricity-generating capacity, are a better bet.
To prepare physicians for the onslaught of genome-wide information, some have suggested that courses in genetics be integrated throughout the entire medical school curriculum [ 2, 3].
In military terms, there was nothing delicate at all about the American onslaught which struck a wide range of targets inside Syria, including the insurgents' de facto capital, Raqqa, as well as new targets in Iraq.
For now, however, Dahl's interest is in whether Texas Hold 'Em Heads Up Poker can withstand the onslaught that will come with wider exposure.
The Senate housing package is expected to be a first modest step by Congress to address the onslaught of home foreclosures and wider unrest in the mortgage and housing industries.
