locked down at the airport

I encountered Seattle Airport's Code 'BRAVO' yesterday morning and it was a little like what I'd imagine a lockdown to be like. All of a sudden everything just stopped. The once busy airport staff were now all doing their best to conceal concerned looks as they peered attentively into the security monitors, and now anxious people are waiting to collect their bags at the security tables, but no one, besides the cops running down the concourse hallways, is moving anywhere. Nothing is moving... now there is only waiting. Waiting and wondering what is happening. Is it the contents of her bag still in the security xray? Or is it that frightening person you saw creep into the bookstore just around the corner. No one says anything, the security people have no answers for the questions coming their way, so you just wait and ironicially hope first, that this delay won't cause you to miss you to miss your flight and second, that the security issue isn't serious. It's weird how my first concern was my schedule and the second concern was my safety-not sure what that says about my priorities? Well, 15 tense minutes later we hear the all clear and the airport suddenly goes back to the regular bustle of a normal Tuesday monring. Thankful I will make it to the gate on time, I continue on my way wondering about the cause of code 'bravo'. As I stop to grab a bite to eat, I hear whispers of what happened (rumors fly as fast in the airport as they do in over self-conscious peer groups) And I hear someone talk about the shoe-less, jesus song singing lady about 30 people infront of me in the massive security line. She seemed to me like she'd be one of those people you find downtown wearing jesus saves pins, preaching on the street corner telling those around her that the end was near-except no one listens... kind of like the how her singing was something we all naturally tuned out. Rumor has it she made a shoe-less sprint through security, the shoes were not the real problem, it was her surprising agility, speed, and absent ticket that was surprising enough to shutdown the airport-what a strange morning...