NJ Emergency Alert System Accidentally Activates, Sends Nuclear Warnings to Some TVs

NBC New York ^ | May 24, 2017

[SMGFan]

A false alarm that went out to some people’s television sets Tuesday might have scared some in New Jersey. A nuclear power plant warning issued in Cumberland and Salem counties was sent out by mistake.

[SMGFan]

If this had been actual Nuclear Power Plant warning ... what should you do?

[Dalberg-Acton]

If it had been a nuclear bomb attack, they would go back to their old elementary school and hunker down under a student desk. Assuming there wasn’t a student already there.

[dp0622]

Drive away far and fast?

[dp0622]

Like I should have done when I met most of my exes for the first time :)

[dfwgator]

If this had been actual Nuclear Power Plant warning ... what should you do?

Duck and Cover.

[Mears]

“Drive away far and fast?”

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Nah——drink,a lot !!!

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[Delta 21]

If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been vaporized by now.

[dp0622]

So then act like it’s an ordinary day? I can do that :)

[Vendome]

[OLDCU]

And drink fast.

[BykrBayb]

They posted a retraction on Twitter, but what about the television viewers?

[Jamestown1630]

LOL!

[Da Bilge Troll]

New Jersey was also the “target” of the Martian invasion in the War of the Worlds radio broadcast that caused widespread panic in 1938.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/

[I want the USA back]

Most people will do nothing, and wait for some sort of confirmation. So what is the use of this kind of alert?

Mindless, idiotic sirens and intrusive interrupting alerts convey as much information and are as stupid as a scream.

[Celerity]

“This is a test. This is only a test. If this were an actual nuclear emergency, your home values, language, food, cars, night life and entertainment, citizens and celebrities would not be affected at all. “

What could a radioactive event do to NJ ? I don’t know. Improve it?

Some sort of nuclear event in NJ would be a catastrophe for The Poconos. They would migrate here like rats out of a burning building. Oh wait, it’s tourist season this is already happening.

I could go on with the NJ hate :)

[pax_et_bonum]

ROFLLLL!!!

[bgill]

Next time, it might be real but people will think it is another “accident.”

[Larry Lucido]

“You just sent a launch order.”

“Damn autocorrect. It was supposed to be a lunch order.”

[dp0622]

THAT SUCKS WHEN IT HAPPENS!!!!! :)

[dp0622]

Rofl!!