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Gaitan family survives avalanche.
Deer are suspected of setting off snowslide that hit car. Penny Gaitan was driving the children into town to go skiing at about 10 a.m. when she saw the snowslide coming down the butte above the road. There wasn t anything I could do. The slide hit the family s car and shoved it into the oncoming lane. Then the avalanche swept the car over the shoulder of the road in a blur.