Alpine Pass — 7:42 AM. A calm winter morning turned catastrophic when a massive avalanche tore down the mountainside and crashed directly into a line of vehicles stuck on an icy mountain road. The video—filmed from inside one of the cars—shows traffic at a standstill as light snow falls and fog settles over the valley. No one realized they were moments away from being hit by thousands of tons of collapsing snow. For nearly an hour, vehicles had inched forward due to earlier reports of minor slid