Preparing Ahead: Science Fiction

It wasn't until she found herself doing things ten years ahead of time that she noticed she had a problem. And then her assistant came rushing in with the figures for that projection, and she realized that she wasn't the only one. Then she flipped the TV to a news program and found them discussing what people should be doing to prepare for ten years in the future, and she realized that *everybody* had a problem. That was when she went from mild irritation at herself for wasting her time--to fear about why this was happening. She went outside, in the middle of spring, and found animals building dens for winter (she couldn't ask them, but she was sure that if she'd been able to, they'd have said it was for winter 10 years from now). She found mothers calmly buying clothes for children ten years older than their own. She found farmers looking really serious about how they were worried the giant granaries they'd been maintaining would hold up.

Inspiration: Thinking about preparing things ahead of time (dinner, actually--wondering about writing a book called "cooking for later" about slow-cooking and other prepare-ahead-of-time-type cooking).
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Not sure why everyone is preparing ahead of time, but it could be an interesting twist on any number of tropes.