Posted on 01/22/2018 6:10:18 PM PST by markomalley
Hawaii Gov. David Ige explained Monday that not knowing his own Twitter password contributed to the delay notifying the people of Hawaii that the ballistic missile alert they received on Jan. 13 was a false alarm.
Ige told reporters Monday part of the 38-minute delay was due to the fact that he did not know his Twitter password, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported.
On Jan. 13, Hawaiians received an alert on their phone and televisions warning of an inbound ballistic missile. Thirty-eight minutes later, it was revealed to be a false alarm, which Ige has previously said was sent because someone “pushed the wrong button” and that the mistake occurred during an employee shift change.
Hawaii Emergency Management Agency administrator Vern Miyagi claimed responsibility for erroneously sending out the alert and called for reforms such as designating one person to send out alerts and equipment changes. He also acknowledged the importance of a full investigation.
Ige expressed similar sentiments concerning an investigation.
"While I am thankful this morning’s alert was a false alarm, the public must have confidence in our emergency alert system. I am working to get to the bottom of this so we can prevent an error of this type in the future," Ige said in a statement.
Notice to potential enemies - take down Twitter and Facebook before launching nuclear attack on USA.
I have a nagging suspicion that there is a lot more to the missile alert than a simple mistake.
Complete bull****
Then you are too stupid to be governor.
Maybe there’s a hall that needs a monitor.
Why wouldn’t there be an all clear option, once a warning had been issued? One additional sentence would clear things up, on top of the cancellation language.
The same guy that put out the warning, could send that all clear to the exact same people.
Seems a rather obvious capability that should be figured in.
Did they only think all warnings would be sure-fire end of their world events? Must have...
I get it - I don’t even have a Twit account.
Oddly, my life seems just fine without it.
OTOH - the Gov could have, you know, picked up a phone....
Apparently Ing and Twitter are the is the key components in our missile command
Note to enemies: hack Twitter and Facebook to give countermanding statements to public alert.
“Everything is fine. All citizens are advised to go out and look at the sky over town center at 1:35PM to see there is no nuclear bomb.
Yeah. That's the way I feel too.
His password was obviously hacked by Russia bots.
The only reason I have a twit account, is so nobody could take my DoughtyOne tag and open an account with it.
Same with facebook, Skype, and Instagram.
I have eMail accounts for: iPhone, iPad mini, iPad, and three laptops. When I want to send a photo from one device to another, I just send it to the right dedicated eMail address.
Each is set up with DoughtyOne@...
The governor is wearing flowery tourist stuff around his neck to announce this info? Weird.
David Ige explained Monday that not knowing his own Twitter password
123?
Good Lord, the stupid never quits.
I bet Trump remembers his...
It's amazing how many democrat governors are
Who cares what Ige says.
Who is that girl holding the microphone?
A man with terminal yellow fever wants to know.
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