Yes, I do see the control tower's location on the airport chart, and its right there at the approach end of both Runway 22 & 26, so the tower controller should've had a good view of an aircraft taxiing to Rwy 22 or 26. Now I wonder what the official weather was at the time. There is a possibility that fog may have obscurred the tower controller's view, and if that's the case, the controller has nothing to rely upon except what the pilot tells us, versus what we can see. Hard to help a pilot avoid disaster if we can't see them.
Good point. While I was up and around at theat time there were intermittent showers passing by. Also, the tower is approximatly 100 feet tall and it could have been in foggy conditions. However, I still thank that it would be very improbable for the tower to have a completely obscured vision of that part of the taxi, runways.