Hawaii EMA Accidentally Sends Out Ballistic Missile Warning

It looks like we are about as prepared to deal with incoming missiles as we are to deal with another Russian attack on our electoral system. But we can all take comfort that Trump has the biggest nuclear button.

Any guesses as to how Trump will blame it on Obama?

tua's throw is still impacting the world

Chukker Veteran said:

It looks like we are about as prepared to deal with incoming missiles as we are to deal with another Russian attack on our electoral system. But we can all take comfort that Trump has the biggest nuclear button.

Any guesses as to how Trump will blame it on Obama?

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hell, they can't even work the conference call system.

The great danger is the "crying wolf" aspect of this. If you accidentally push the "send out the real incoming missile warning" when it is just a test, people will learn to ignore the real incoming missile warning.

A less dire but very real example came from my time living in the God-forsaken wasteland that is Kansas (a place I think would make a great nuclear missile firing range). The state has tornado syrens all over the place, with good reason. One summer, I heard the syren at my palatial estate in eastern Kansas so I checked the weather map on TV. It turned out that there was the possibility of a tornado in far western Kansas, 350 miles away. There was not an actual tornado, mind you, just conditions that make a tornado possible. I thought the syren means there is a tornado right here, right now, but it was 350 miles away for Pete's sake, and it was just condition existing. So the Kansas Emergency Management folks were teaching Kansas to ignore tornado syrens. Good move, guys.

The joker in Hawaii should be made to publicly apologize and then fired.

Can you imagine the feeling after you realized what you’ve done? I would just start packing up my office.


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Tidewater said:

The great danger is the "crying wolf" aspect of this. If you accidentally push the "send out the real incoming missile warning" when it is just a test, people will learn to ignore the real incoming missile warning.

A less dire but very real example came from my time living in the God-forsaken wasteland that is Kansas (a place I think would make a great nuclear missile firing range). The state has tornado syrens all over the place, with good reason. One summer, I heard the syren at my palatial estate in eastern Kansas so I checked the weather map on TV. It turned out that there was the possibility of a tornado in far western Kansas, 350 miles away. There was not an actual tornado, mind you, just conditions that make a tornado possible. I thought the syren means there is a tornado right here, right now, but it was 350 miles away for Pete's sake, and it was just condition existing. So the Kansas Emergency Management folks were teaching Kansas to ignore tornado syrens. Good move, guys.

The joker in Hawaii should be made to publicly apologize and then fired.

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if a tornado ever hits downtown hapeville on the first wednesday of the month at noon, i'm screwed

92tide said:

if a tornado ever hits downtown hapeville on the first wednesday of the month at noon, i'm screwed

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same here in Vinings

92tide said:

if a tornado ever hits the downtown hickville walmart on any given evening, i'm screwed

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This would be more my fare...

92tide said:

if a tornado ever hits downtown hapeville on the first wednesday of the month at noon, i'm screwed

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Tornados don't hit on the 1st Wednesday of the month. That's why they test the systems at that time. Duh!

rolltide_21 said:

Can you imagine the feeling after you realized what you’ve done? I would just start packing up my office.


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There’s a new Southwest commercial just waiting to use this (“wouldn’t you like to get away?”).

mrusso said:

Tornados don't hit on the 1st Wednesday of the month. That's why they test the systems at that time. Duh!

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Tragically, they hit the last Wednesday of the month (like April 27, 2011).

Chukker Veteran said:

It looks like we are about as prepared to deal with incoming missiles as we are to deal with another Russian attack on our electoral system. But we can all take comfort that Trump has the biggest nuclear button.

Any guesses as to how Trump will blame it on Obama?

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NoBama blamed Bush, Bush blame Clinton, Clinton blame, Daddy Bush, and whoever replaces Trump (in 2024, perhaps?) will blame him. It goes with the territory.

Look, this was a STATE issue and had NOTHING to do with either Trump OR Obama but........nutbags gonna nutbag.....


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/arpa...missile-alert-points-states/story?id=52338056



Arizona Senate candidate Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County and an outspoken "birther," said Saturday he is not surprised that Hawaiians received an erroneous emergency mobile alert about an imminent ballistic missile attack because "there's something wrong with that government."

Case in point, according to Arpaio? Former President Barack Obama's "fraudulent" Hawaii birth certificate.

Arpaio claims Obama was not born in the U.S., despite what the birth certificate says. But Obama was indeed born in the U.S., in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961.


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Incidentally, the gal on Fox News didn't let him get away with this and actually pointed out the facts (for those of you still holding to cherished myth of one-way media bias).

selmaborntidefan said:

NOTHING to do with either Trump

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Other than the fact he's been saber rattling with the crazy over in NK who has been threatening to nuke the US.

From Hawaii.....friend of mine's post on FB.....and subsequent comments:



* (from BIL who is not a liberal)
I instinctively knew that this was a false alarm the moment it came in on my phone, as the DPRK does not yet have the capability to deliver a nuke warhead to Hawaii. And the gullibility of the people (residents & visitors alike) here is laughable; and, unfortunately, fostered by local officials. But give Kim Jong Un a few more years to work things out and the threat could become real. But for now, don't believe it when you hear that "the sky is falling!".

* (from husband of person who posted who is a liberal)
When an entire state receives an official warning notice, to not take it seriously is foolhardy. This has been proven many times in evacuation notices for fires and hurricanes as well. You may laugh and display a cavalier attitude, but this has become a serious situation with the threats made by our foolish president and that of Kim Jong Un.

* (response from BIL)
A hurricane or tsunami warning is different altogether. This was a specific "incoming ballistic missile" warning. And if it were authentic, what are you supposed to do?... "duck and cover"? The reaction to yesterday's error was a gigantic "Chicken Little" event. I imagine Orson Wells' ghost got a chuckle out of it. Politics need not be interjected.

You know, some times "my bad" just doesn't get it.