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TUBOB: Screw You, Hawaii, Screw You

For only the second time* in my life, I'm completely stranded. The first was when I was caught in a brutal blizzard that stranded me overnight in Moses Lake when I-90 was closed. But this is worse, because the flooding is supposed to increase madly and gigantically as the Pineapple Express storm blasts more rain today and tomorrow, another 3 to FIFTEEN inches.  Basically, unless I could find an alternate southern route to I-84 in Oregon and then run the gorge east and up through the Tri-Cities, there's no way, without flying, I could get home if my roof collapsed or something bad happened at my home in Spokane. Spokane is undergoing its own sloppy wet weather hell from the Pineapple Express melting some of the vast amounts of snow there. Vast enough to keep Spokane on the national news/TUBOB. More here.

Question: Have you been stranded somewhere?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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