The correct answer is A.
The family needs a safe, dry place to sleep in the winter. Their home in the salt cavern is described as an "impregnable castle." Falconhurst had fallen apart and they decided to use it as a summer home. They move to the cave to survive the winter.
Answer:
Cloudy
Explanation:
When there is rain we say it's a rainy day. And when clouds float in the sky it's Cloudy
That would be the weather; the harsh winters were brutal.
And what the weather didn't do, the many diseases certainly did.
No, it wasn't so much the native Americans -- like you were probably thinking.