Right, just stand there. What did you think what was going to happen?

[MrScorpio]

[brush]

1. Talk about slow reactions. Not sure she should be out alone.

[Marie Marie]

2. Looks like she was engrossed with her phone.

Be glad she wasn't driving.

[pangaia]

3. Looks like republicans

[PoiBoy]

4. I wonder what the aftermath looked like...

..do you have a link to the story...???

That's one heck of a snowball..!!

[Docreed2003]

5. Damn...looks like the whole train station got covered!!

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Trump voters.

You can find them anywhere.

[MFM008]

7. Avalanche

Bet some of those hurt.

[surrealAmerican]

8. All of those people ...

... were looking at their phones.

[gratuitous]

11. Filming it, I think

But yeah, so engrossed in getting the shot that they got buried. "I never dreamed that by voting for the Leopards Eating Your Face party that I'd have my face eaten by a leopard!"

[FSogol]

9. A man-made Jokulhlaup!

Jökulhlaup is a glacier outburst flood resulting from the failure of a glacier-ice-dam, glacier-sediment-dam, or from the melting of glacier ice by a volcanic eruption (Icelandic).

In the Cascades, they have signs warning about these. If you are near a river or stream and see a white cloud moving rapidly toward you, you need to run perpendicular away from river. A large block of glacier ice has fallen upstream and caused a flood of snow, ice, water, rocks, and debris to rush down. Very dangerous when you are in the back country.

[drmeow]

10. The playback is in slow motion

and even slowed down is only 30 seconds long. If we assume it is at 1/2 speed that means we're talking about 15 seconds to see whats going on, make the connection about how its going to impact you, and get out of the way. This is made more complex by the fact that this is both an atypical effect and one that is somewhat fascinating and interesting to watch. I think unless the train routinely plowed through that much snow on our station, most of us wouldn't have reacted any faster.