What will become of me, How am I getting to Spokane.

i remember my New Years 1999 turning to 2000. i was a missionary in Washington DC, (you all know the story, got parasites in El Salvador, so i came back, felt the guilt of not finishing, decided to go back and finish etc.). Well, the day before this New Years we went to the market aka grocery store, and it was so crowded, the shelves were dwindling, people thought the world was ending (or at least computers were gonna crash, aka the world would end). Now flash foreward.

Yesterday I went to the market (aka Winco. the cheapest of all the grocery stores in Moscow, but you gotta bag your foods yourself--what a small price to pay for the cheapness) and it was so crowded. A snowy, Saturday night and super crowed. Also the shelves were bare (OK just the Vanilla Wafer shelve, but that is what I wanted, and granted only Vanilla Wafers original were gone, they had low fat but I didn't want those) and it reminded me of the urgency that the customers felt on the new years 2000, to stockpile. Everyones carts were full. At checkout, I asked the checkout girl, is it always like this? She said, before a storm people stock-pile food becuase they don't want to go out more than they need to, plus with Christmas coming they need to shop alot more. Well that made sense. Then she said, "Tommorrow we are supposed to get 14 inches". What??

I went to the bus depot, and she said sometimes the bus doesn't run if there is bad weather. And sometimes it just decides to be late. The bus leaves here at 2:30. My plan was to take it, and be to the Spokane Airport by 4:30. Plenty of time for my 6:00pm flight. But if weather is bad, I gotta drive my car... and park it for 3 weeks. YUCK. But those are my options, and the thing is that is half the reason I wanted to take the bus is to avoid driving on the bad winterized roads (mind you I haven't driven in snow since Ricks College, and I hit another car in my Cadilac, 'grey hawk", now I have my Element, and I don't want history to repeat itself....

I suppose I am just overly concerned, and heres the last concern... What if the flights are cancelled because the snow in Spokane, then I am there with a car (and it is horrible conditions) or without (i drove the bus) and then what? I just campout in the Spokane Airport. Sheesh...in AZ we always knew our flights and drives to the airport would be fine, regarless of the the conditions. I miss those carefree days.