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38 Minutes in Hawaii: My Family and the False Missile Alarm (Amazing personal account)
The Stream ^ | January 14, 2018 | Jason Scott Jones

Posted on 01/15/2018 5:18:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance

I woke up abruptly. Overzealous JROTC Cadets ran and yelled on the high school track across the street. I rolled over and grabbed my reading glasses. Time to return to the book which I’d fallen asleep reading. It’s Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile by Eugene Sheppard. Thirty minutes later, I faced a tough choice. Should I go down and check on my children? Or watch an old Lomachenko fight on Youtube? Then my wife called up, “Babe, it’s garbage day. Take out the trash!” So I rushed downstairs. My typical Saturday ritual. As I dragged the trash out a bizarre sound boomed from my phone. I read the message:

“Ballistic missile threat inbound. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”

“So it’s today,” I thought...

(Excerpt) Read more at stream.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: falsealarm; hawaii; hawaiimissilealert; hawaiimissilewarning; hema; noalert; personalaccount; pyongyang; rushlimbaugh
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To: ASOC
I remember doing "duck-and-cover" drills in elementary school while living in Tucson. It seemed to me like a better idea, if that balloon went up, would be to go outside in the playground and watch the last fireworks show.

I think that fellow who stay out to play a last round of golf had the right idea. But so did the journalist who took his family to the cave on the other side of the mountain. So also did the fellow at the cave who left his position of safety to find his wife.

Doing something with intention always beats curling up and whimpering.

121 posted on 01/15/2018 8:17:14 PM PST by flamberge (What next?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Some Democrats argued that seriously.


122 posted on 01/15/2018 8:17:41 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: sparklite2

In my storage unit ( out of the country right now) I have this vintage book: Fallout shelter handbook.

It shows you how to dig a shelter, arrange one in the basement, how to test if the radiation has gone down.

https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-shelter-handbook-Fawcett-book/dp/B0007ET1DG

But the best is Cade Courtley’s video series Surviving Disaster on surviving a nuclear attack. ( The whole series is great as his Seal Survival Guide.) Hint turn away from the initial blast and open your mouth.

https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Attack/dp/B002NFOLS2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516076319&sr=8-1&keywords=surviving+disaster


123 posted on 01/15/2018 8:21:22 PM PST by ThankYouFreeRepublic (Philippines, expat, taxes)
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To: EternalVigilance

bump


124 posted on 01/15/2018 8:28:13 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Winning isn't as easy as I make it look. -- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Sequoyah101
Atlas didn’t last long did it?

Atlas and Titan I were quickly replaced by the Titan II and the Minuteman I. The Titan II and Minuteman missiles launched right out of their silos and their propellants were stored inside the missile so it took only a minute or less from keyturn to launch. The internally stored propellants and the silo launch made them more survivable. When I was quite young I used to see B-47s performing fighter evasion tactics with Air Force fighters over my home.

125 posted on 01/15/2018 8:45:29 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: pfflier; EQAndyBuzz
Ahhh the dreaded elevator work cage. I hated that damn thing.

When I was a Missile Maintenance Officer (Mechanical Branch Chief) at Grand Forks I used to dispatch in my truck with either a cage or a pipe pusher. One of my MMT troops got stuck in the cage down in Mike Flight while I was up in Bravo. Poor guy couldn't get rescued until I got down there with the spare cage.

126 posted on 01/15/2018 8:50:18 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: sparklite2

You should have kept reading. It’s an interesting article.


127 posted on 01/15/2018 9:23:01 PM PST by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: EternalVigilance

There are people on this earth who actually welcome a nuke strike on their location. Think of those in NOKO concentration camps and those Christians living in areas occupied by ISIS or those thinking of committing suicide.


128 posted on 01/15/2018 9:27:25 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Trumpnado2016

BUMP. Deserves repeating.


129 posted on 01/15/2018 9:36:57 PM PST by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: sparklite2

It is worth the read.


130 posted on 01/15/2018 9:49:15 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media and Shariah Socialism.)
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To: flamberge

Wise words. Very wise words. Copied and pasted to a personal diary.


131 posted on 01/15/2018 9:59:13 PM PST by Helen
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To: EternalVigilance

I wonder how long it will take for Hollywood to make it into a movie?


132 posted on 01/15/2018 10:45:38 PM PST by TonyM (UPS)
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To: SaveFerris
Only have an older LG flip phone that makes and receives calls, when I have it on. On is only when I am driving about for the wife to call me or I her. I think it can take crappy photos, cannot recall how to do that.

People really leave their phones on 24 hours a day? That is what landline is for, I thought.

133 posted on 01/15/2018 10:50:34 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: OldMissileer
When I was quite young I used to see B-47s performing fighter evasion tactics with Air Force fighters over my home.

Would love to see a video of a B-47 doing a loft release.

Saw a fighter doing a demo at an air show decades ago, but the idea of a B-47 doing that...............

134 posted on 01/15/2018 10:57:59 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: EternalVigilance

i really doubt many people took it seriously when it was just a message on a cell phone with no warning sirens


135 posted on 01/15/2018 10:58:58 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: untenured

How about “It is better to eliminate injustice and tyranny that to let it live, fester and spread to the rest of mankind.”

That would be a true act of justice. Letting the suffering go on is truly an injustice of the worst kind.

As a member of a Holocaust wiped out European side of the family, I would rather have had American and British bombers destroy Auschwitz than to let Mengele do his experiments on children, or the SS gas them in the chambers.

Liberals are very liberal at sacrificing other peoples’ lives for their own sanctimonious vain feelings.


136 posted on 01/16/2018 12:11:52 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: AzSteven
...used to sneak over to the boneyard and climb into them

WOW!!

I would have LOVED to have done that!!!


I'd still like to visit it in person; and not just looking down from GoogleEarth.

137 posted on 01/16/2018 3:54:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: OldMissileer; pfflier

My favorite pastime was battery spill cleanup. Also on the lower floor to the left was something we called the PCB door. We had to open that door, go in there and wipe up the PCB’s that were dripping from the electronics. I’m surprised after almost 35 years I haven’t gotten cancer yet.

Good times. How did you guys do when 4th came out to test y’all?


138 posted on 01/16/2018 3:57:36 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: hoagy62
I worked; for a time; in the White Room located in Indianapolis' Naval Avionics Center (the facility that produced the famous Norton Bombsight for WWII).
 
We were tasked with repairing and calibrating the guidance system(s) that sat atop the missiles in the nuclear subs.
 
I never thought much about getting vaporized at work; though it had been discussed before.
 
Heck; I lived less than a mile away from the plant as well, so my odds of glowing in the dark were a LOT greater than guys than drove in from the suburbs to work.
 
 
 
 
https://www.ibj.com/articles/58971-wwii-era-navy-plant-modernizes-expands

139 posted on 01/16/2018 4:12:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EternalVigilance

God bless the guy who drove back toward his wife.


140 posted on 01/16/2018 4:39:51 AM PST by mewzilla
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