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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Lived in CA, home of FR for 41 years. I know the feeling.
I bet there’s a run on the dry cleaners tomorrow.
Born and lived there 59 years, it still hurts what happened to my home.
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