Posted on 01/15/2018 7:34:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
“How seriously are people going to take this system?” Hawaii State Rep. Matt LoPresti told CNN. “I’m going to suggest that if there is ever … another alert that goes out, we’ll have to send a confirmation notice — that second notice this really is happening. Because people will be waiting for a second notice to see that it’s another false alarm.”
Hawaii’s emergency management agency keeps its eyes on the many potential disasters other than North Korea — such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquake activity in the region, volcanic activity or flooding.
Vern Miyagi, the agency’s administrator acknowledged on Sunday that damage had been done to the agency.
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Hawaii has been testing its sirens since December. The nuclear warning siren system blares at 11:45 a.m. on the first business day of every month, sounding for 50 seconds, followed by a 10-second pause and then a wailing “attack warning” signal for another 50 seconds.
The emergency sirens didn’t go off on Saturday, officials said. Had it been a real threat, they would’ve sounded.
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In the summer, Hawaii published its guidance on ways to survive a nuclear detonation, with advice including seek shelter, stay away from windows and don’t look at the flash of light.
Hawaii sits less than 5,000 miles from North Korea. The state would only have about a 20-minute heads up if a missile is launched from there.
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Miyagi apologized Saturday for the false alarm, saying “this is my responsibility and my team.”
But he reiterated the need to be prepared. “Please keep in mind again, the threat is there. If this comes out, you’re only going to have 12-13 minutes for actual event.”
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You mean they aren’t blaming Trump? I’m shocked.
Hawaii doesn’t have any credibility.
ditto
Don't worry, several dems and Hollywood weirdos have already blamed President Trump - the facts never stand in their way.
Or crime either since guns are so highly restricted. Right?
Their credibility has been an issue since they destroyed ohole’s birth certificate..
Jimmie Leigh Curtis did
Remember that Twitter contractor who on his last contract day suspended Trump’s Twitter account for no reason other than share malice..?
a lot of people are doing pulling these kind of tricks
I think this missile thing was absolutely not an accident, it was more Trump derangement syndrome.
politically motivated.
Hawaii’s Credibility?!
They produced the world’s greatest charlatan, Barack Hussein Obama. That’s all you’ll ever need to know about Hawaii’s credibility.
Oh, He has been blamed. Who else’s fault could it be?
It did?
I thought Kenya did that?
Zero crime! No racism either. Literally Utopia there.
I believe they have added a “False Alarm” template that will go out if no missile is detected. What did we ever do before twitter and cell notifications ?
“How seriously are people going to take this system?”
They’d better take it very seriously.
They had their one surprise drill. Quit whining about the gov’t screwing up, and each look at their own personal reaction to the news - and figure out how they’re going to act _next_ time, when it’s for real.
Standing in a parking lot screaming won’t help.
Neither will stuffing kids in sewer pipes. (Note that the fastest manmade object was a manhole cover, accelerated by a nuclear blast.)
Talk about yelling “FIRE” in a crowded theater !?!?
In some places false alarms are punished heavily.
Remember that Natural Gas provider who stated he wouldn’t sell to people who had voted for Trump..?
there are a lot of these guys out there and they don’t identify themselves before they act, they just go off:
A honky version of Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
The alert assured people that it was not a test. “This is not a test” but it was a test.
Next time, would a reasonable person stop his car on the highway and run to the nearest house, bang on the door, and demand to be let into the basement for shelter?
Seriously, in case of nuclear attack I’m not going into a hole in the ground for weeks, expecting to come out to a liveable world. If there’s an attack, going into a shelter only delays your death by a few days or weeks.
I’m thinking that the authorities in HI aren’t very upset over this. Perhaps they see it as a way to $hit on Trump for his nuclear button comments.
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