Posted on 01/13/2018 12:02:36 PM PST by gandalftb
Residents and visitors in the Hawaiian Islands Saturday received a missile warning alert in error, but not before creating a panic on social media.
The alert read in all capital letters: “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”
The alert was sent sometime after 8 a.m. local time, and many people took to Twitter to share screenshots of their phones.
A second emergency alert went out about 40 minutes later clarifying that the first alert was a false alarm, CNN associate producer Amanda Golden tweeted. “Repeat. False Alarm” the second alert read.
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency eventually tweeted “NO missile threat to Hawaii.”
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I was/am affected - I live in hawaii
ALL DEMOCRATS in Hawaii!! No Republicans within 2000 to blame!
Jamie Lee Curtis just raged off on Trump with a tantrum blaming him for it on Twitter.
Hawaii puckered
Dumbass.....she’s a TWIT!
LOL...because 0barka NEVER played golf.....even for the FALSE ALARM events.
Geez....the MSM Sleeze.
“Jamie Lee Curtis just raged off on Trump with a tantrum blaming him for it on Twitter.”
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What a stupid b*tch she is. Total moron.
Yabbut, if Rocket Man’s targeting is good, only Oahu should be worried. Trades will blow fallout away from us.
I remember when that happened....I was a kid on Long Island, NY.
The TV was off; my family was having dinner.
I think it was still light outside.
Anyway, there was a fire house down the road, and they had a siren on a tall tower. They would activate it in winter at 6:00 AM when school was cancelled because of a snowstorm.
This time, it sounded like an air raid siren, and that’s what I said to my father at the dinner table....”That sounds like an air raid siren!” said a young version of myself.
From what I heard at the time, all TV stations were supposed to go off the air pending a message from the president....Richard Nixon....but most TV stations stayed on the air with their normal programs.
Piss off
What the HELL is wrong with you?? You must be one of the DEMONCRATS I mentioned! Geesh....what has happened to Freepers lately?
Some vicious leftist SOB did this on purpose. Please!
Your caps dipshiite. You typed it, you own it. Never saw you slam California is just being chock full of liberals and nothing else.
YOU are a NUTCASE!
“sending panic on social media”
Who cares about social media ? An entire STATE was betrayed by a government system designed to make them panic and seek shelter !
If people panicked, they were TOLD TO ! By making light of the situation, they have guaranteed failure when the system is actually used.
Just apologize, promise you’ll do better and move on. They are losing confidence in this system by the second.
Too bad we didn’t go ahead with Reagan’s missile defense system decades ago.
That would have been a frightening situation, to say the least.
Regarding the YouTube video that I posted about: It’s amazing how calm and composed the radio announcer was. I’m sure he was much more frightened than he let on.
If I had been in Hawaii this morning, I would have suffered an epic panic attack. When I was young, I remember watching “The Day After” and “ Threads”. I would have nightmares about nuclear war.
IMO, “Threads” is the most terrifying film that I’ve ever seen.
Hey Leo, got some clown thinks we are all democrats in Hawaii.
they don’t know.....
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