COEUR d'ALENE - If this story is wrong, it won't be corrected on Sunday.

It'll be sayonara, so there'll be no time for a follow up.

Locals, though, seem certain that won't be the case.

They say a California Christian radio network owner's interpretation of scripture insisting Judgment Day cometh Saturday is hot air, and they're comfortable going to print saying so.

You know how Laura Bayless knows?

Because the certainties are death and taxes, and the taxes part is still a month away.

"Property taxes are due on (June) 20," the Coeur d'Alene homeowner said, tidying up her yard on Friday. "So I know the world won't end in May."

Harold Camping, a 89-year-old biblical scholar and radio station owner, says the rapture - where believers will ascend to heaven - will happen 6 p.m. Saturday, beginning with great earthquakes shaking the Earth for five months. That would take us to Oct. 21, when the final curtain would fall.

According to news reports, Camping - whose followers were in Coeur d'Alene preaching the message this week - cites two Bible passages to align the date. The Book of Peter implies that the end of the world will occur 7,000 years from the date of the great flood, and the Book of Genesis says the flood occurred on the "17th day of the second month." Using the Jewish calendar - the guide of the time - lands us at the May 21, 2011, date.

Which happens to be today.

And just when the weather was getting warm.

But what if?

What would you do if, in fact, Camping was on top of his biblical math?

"Same thing," said Randy Kirkcaldy, drinking beer Friday afternoon in downtown Coeur d'Alene with his friend, Bill Stanko. "Enjoying life."

If the world is going to end, they'd prefer to rely on the Mayan calendar's Dec. 21, 2012, prediction, they said.

Oh yeah, that one's coming too, in case Camping whiffs on this one, which he did in 1994.

Others around town compared the prediction to the Y2K hysteria in 2000.

Remember that? Satellites were supposed to fall from space and computers were supposed to transform into droids and eat you.

The Bible, though, does say that Christ will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

But read further, said Hayden Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Dan Cole, and it goes on to say no man knows the time and date.

"I don't think the majority of Christians believe in Camping's approach," Cole said. "Is he going to be a definer of truth? No. The Bible will be."

But what if it's true?

Actually, The Press could follow up with a breaking news story that, yes, the world is shaking, posted online, but what would you do with the last normal hours on Earth?

"I guess I'd see if I could go to Silverwood," said teenager John Beatty, filling up at the Chevron gas station off Government Way Friday with his mother, Carol Boonson.

"Wait," Carol said after a beat. "You wouldn't want to spend it with me?"

"You could come to Silverwood too," he said.