Was it Caused by...
some commie prevert trying to destroy our purity of essence and messing with our precious bodily fluids?
Because that would make about the same amount of sense as the story they are giving us.
This story is based on the press release from the HI Gov’s office.
Unfortunately, it makes no sense what so ever that triggering an alert is that easy (too many failsafes in place), or why it took so long to catch said error and send out correction.
Not sure I buy the story.
Why did it take 38 minutes to correct? How long did it take the button pusher to realize what he’d done?
It was an employee of the HEM?
No way! It was Trump’s fault.
Surprised the Compost wrote this at all. Whassup with that?
This has happened before.
https://seanmunger.com/2014/02/20/we-interrupt-this-program-the-terrifying-ebs-false-alarm-of-1971/
And in my lifetime, which does not yet qualify as ancient history.
Sounds like it was planned so as to trash Trump over his foreign policies.
Sick liberal solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
But Jamie Lee Curtis said Trump did it.
Hawaii is completely under the control of Democrats - how will they account for this case of gross incompetence on the state level?
The 1971 EBS False Alarm
WOWO Ft. Wayne EBS False Alarm: February 20,1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I
As annoying as “Are you sure?” prompts are, they do serve a purpose.
Breitbart reported that Hawaii Police knew 30 seconds after broadcast.
Voting in strong Republicans would be a start at heading off North Korea too.
The NYT has already said, in effect, that although this was a false alert, nevertheless it shows that Trump put the world in nuclear danger etc bla bla.
Didn’t take them long. The liberal mind can reach that contrary-to-fact conclusion in a flash. They don’t process reality as sane humans do.
If it were a real missile attack then the “worker” would be heading for a shelter, not sending out a warning.
We were in Maui at that moment and the family took a few minutes to gather to a common location.
As soon as we were all together my first comment was, “This is Bull!”
“Kim has no targeting, no re-entry vehicle, and we would have shot it down.”
Much more likely an errant message.
Of course the family preferred to believe the god of their smart phone, than listen to me.
They weren’t comforted when I later said it would have been here already, before the error was publicly acknowledged.
Who knows what they think of my dismissive attitude now, but I’m happy to have introduced some sanity amid the panic.
*Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert.”
If this is really the way the system work, it’s criminally amateurish beyond belief. Even when I delete an email or picture in my phone it asks me if I really want to do that. It allows me to correct a possible error. But that’s not available for a missile alert?!
Not only that but they have test and actual alert on the same pull down menu next to each other??
sounds like a pull down menu option gone bad.. they haven’t said what operating this was on.. Microsoft Windows or Apple iOS.. or was it Linux??
You know if this is the story that the Washington Post is pushing that something completely different happened.
This “accident” begs the question -
Why have an alert if you have not taken the time to inform the public what actions should be.
Why have an alert if a proper civil defense system has not been set up to be prepared for the aftermath of a real attack?
Why have an alert if there are no shelters prepared for people to go to?
I grew up in the 1950s - once a week we had an air raid siren go off. Because of the “duck and cover” classes we had in school I knew (even as a child) what to do if under an attack. (Would such training saved everyone? No, but I am sure many would have survived by following the simple instructions.
We also had air raid shelters in every public building as well as many private businesses.
A 20 minute window is not very big but if there was a real attack, with prior knowledge many would survive that would die because our government is incompetent (oh, that is right, Hawaii is a one party state run by Democrats - of course it is incompetent)