I’m in Hawaii . This message /alert on my phone woke me up this morning . What a way to start the day !
EXTREME ALERT
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII
SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Yikes.
Bet you didn't need any coffee this morn.
Scary Stuff. Glad it was a false alarm.
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Well THAT will wipe the current “shithole” tantrum right off the Fake News cycle.
MAGA!!
Good to know Hawaii is still doing the bang-up job they did with Obama’s “birth” records and liberal voting.
Yikes
I will say something a little controversial here : I am somewhat disappointed that this was a False Alarm . It’s too bad Kim did not launch on us this morning , the dirty little f-ing rat . Our Aegis system could have knocked it out ( or whatever great superior defense systems we have and none of us know about ) . That would have given us the prefect excuse to launch a devastating counter strike on the DPRK ( and within the PRC perimeters about allowing for a US defensive counter strike ) . This could have been the day when we rid the world of Kim Jong Un and all of his minions .
I was outside a coffee shop this morning and the mom was on the phone - I could tell she was panicked. It was 10am here in Seattle. I thought I hear her say the word “missile” but figured I must have heard wrong. I guess not. Asian gal, so perhaps was calling her family in Hawaii.
“I love you too - now put Daddy on the phone. No - it will be okay - your safe - I love you - now put Daddy on the phone! Okay - I know - but you need to go get Daddy RIGHT now!”
Scary stuff for her and her family.
ME? I had no clue, and thought she was dealing with her own little family crisis.
Reminds me of the book “Robinson Crueso” where he is on the island alone and is free and easy, finding enough food, setting up a camp, etc. It was a year or two of that as I recall. Then he goes exploring and sees the footprints on the beach on the other side of the island.
He freaks out - what if they are head hunters, etc. He then builds a fortress around his camp, only ventures out at night and hides during the day for another two years or something living in fear.
He comes out of that stage at some point. Says something about how it was Providence that allowed him those first few years of peace. And how it is Providential in life on how many times we are so close to harm but don’t even recognize it, so we still go about our lives. I think of that once in awhile on the road. Except I guess I DO know how close I am to one idiot driver with their cat in their lap or chatting with their passenger and not paying attention and they are two feet from me going 70 mph.
If the warning had been real the President of the United States would have appeared on your “AM, FM, broadcast television, cable television and Land Mobile Radio Service, as well as VHF, UHF, and FiOS (wireline video providers). Digital television, satellite television, and digital cable providers, along with Sirius XM satellite radio, IBOC, DAB, smart phones and digital radio broadcasters” within 10 minutes of a launch against our country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System
My God,I would have been terrified.
My DIL’s entire family is in Hawaii.
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Could have been worse, it could have been real........LOL!