Matt Whiting wrote:

Having snow and ice
on the tail dropping the tail to the ground is no big deal and doesn't
hurt the airplane at all.

Most of the time. The tiedown for my old 150 was made of angle iron embedded in
concrete. One year I had apparently parked it with the tail directly over that
iron just before a snowstorm. When the tail went down, the iron punched right
through the bottom of the rudder. I installed one of those "illegal" fiberglass
replacements from Stene (the subject of another recent thread) and piled a
couple of old tires over the angle iron. Problem solved.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.