So....anyone from Hawaii just have a panic attack?

[Darwin333]

A test, for testing their emergency alert equipment.

Won't they all be dead if it is the real deal regardless? I guess a few people might have bomb shelters but how many actually get to them in time to be saved?

 

[Darwin333]

HI...sorry.




how much fun can a grunt button pusher have.

 

[ImpulsE69]

easy.

when you are creating your post, look at the top of that box and you will see numerous things. one will be a smiley face. to the right of that will be the insert image button.

happy now?

Actually no, I don't see any of that, just some garbles where icons should probably be. Been this way since whatever that last update they did that takes you to ANOTHER page to 'like' a post (which is just..not cool btw).

 

[Red Squirrel]

38 minutes to announce its a false alarm? That seems like a flaw in the system. 'Hey we can alert everyone instantly but only once'

That's the part that seems odd to me. We've all done it, accidentally do net send to the entire domain instead of one machine, or accidentally send an email to wrong person etc... but as soon as you realize the "oh shit" moment you correct the mistake. In this case unfortunately the damage is done but you can just send another message to say to ignore it/false alarm etc.

Someone at a place I worked was playing with net send and wanted to send a message to a coworker. "WASSSSSSSSUP" but forgot to input machine name, and by default if you omit that it just sends to the whole domain. Help desk was busy that day. "I have this error on my computer..."

 

[thebestMAX]

20 minutes from NK to Hawaii, 10 minutes to get the warning out so basically they are just yelling "Duck!"
Damn talking heads. .

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Have you ever been to Oahu?

Yeah, if you have 10 minutes to impact fallout shelters aren't going to do jack. Think of it more like "last call!!" Grab a drink, get a last boink in, pray, do a little looting, however you want to spend your last few minutes. It's not about survival, it's about going out in style.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There's a picture on FB of a family that all went to hide in the bathroom. lol.

Unless you have a bomb shelter you may as well just ride it out and either accept your fate or hope a miracle happens. Hiding in basement might give some chance of survival.

 

[rchunter]

Won't they all be dead if it is the real deal regardless? I guess a few people might have bomb shelters but how many actually get to them in time to be saved?

I guess they want to make sure to alert them before they all die. I agree though its not a good situation for the people there.

 

[deustroop]

While we all are afraid of crazies , Ding-don is not one . If I lived on the island I would have considered the odds that he would attack the USA as 100-1 against in light of the high probability that the American response would likely end his regime in the blink of a passing hoard of cruise missiles. Hardly worth it just to tan Hawaiians.

But I wonder how the " oopsies" supporters would consider such an attack? Go, "oh well mistakes happen, best to forgive and forget, he'll be a better leader next time" ?. Begs the question, when do you put the foot down? What if Ding-don called and said "oopsies Mr President" ?

 

[feralkid]

"Ding-don"?

 

[Kaido]

Someone at a place I worked was playing with net send and wanted to send a message to a coworker. "WASSSSSSSSUP" but forgot to input machine name, and by default if you omit that it just sends to the whole domain. Help desk was busy that day. "I have this error on my computer..."

Haha I had a coworker who did that a few years ago, spammed the entire corporate branch, it was amazing

 

[Kaido]

Reminds me of the button scene from Monsters vs. Aliens:

 

[pcgeek11]

There's a picture on FB of a family that all went to hide in the bathroom. lol.

Unless you have a bomb shelter you may as well just ride it out and either accept your fate or hope a miracle happens. Hiding in basement might give some chance of survival.

I don't think there are any or many basements in Hawaii. I lived there for 3.5 years and never saw a basement in a house.

 

[Chaotic42]

I don't think there are any or many basements in Hawaii. I lived there for 3.5 years and never saw a basement in a house.

I wonder if the soil just isn't conducive to building them. I saw a few reports of people hiding in tunnels or even under bridges. I guess if you were in a good position, you could try and get on the other side of the mountain. I wonder how accurate the DPRK's ICBMs actually are.

Just do what you can, I suppose.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Good read from Representative Tulsi Gabbard:

https://imgur.com/gallery/X9yYx

My first reaction to the news was "lol, what a mistake". My second reaction, after reading people's reactions in Hawaii, was holy crap - people really thought they were going to die, which is pretty dang scary, especially due to the current tensions with NK. My third reaction is that this may have a silver lining, as Gabbard detailed.

What's so scary about dying? Surviving the attack but slowly dying from radiation would be a lot worse than being quickly vaporized.

 

[Darwin333]

What's so scary about dying? Surviving the attack but slowly dying from radiation would be a lot worse than being quickly vaporized.

Not to mention we saw how long it took the government to get help to New Orleans after Katrina, a storm they saw coming and had time to prepare for, could you imagine how long the survivors would be on their own with no resources after getting nuked in Hawaii?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm yeah no basement can be an issue. Suppose you could try to open a sewer cover and hide in the sewers lol. Idealy pick a storm drain if you can but those may be harder to open on a whim.

 

[Muse]

I would have been skeptical. You gotta think, what dufus designed that alert system where someone could click the wrong button and send that alert by mistake to the whole state? I know that incompetence is everywhere, but that level boggles the mind.

Speaking of panic, did you see that story (I saw on TV news last night) about the large commercial airline jet that just about fell off a cliff when its landing went haywire? It was only saved by its wheels catching in the mud of the cliff. It looked to be at a ~60 degree angle. The people on board must have shit and peed their pants. The story said that no one on board was hurt. But panic? Whoa!

Jet comes to stop on cliff, nearly lands in sea in Turkey

 

[deustroop]

does panic help or hurt such a case ? Any case ?

 

[DietDrThunder]

If I were Kim Jong Nut Ball and wanted to nuke Guam or Hawaii, I'd launch on April 1st.

 

[DietDrThunder]

I would have been skeptical. You gotta think, what dufus designed that alert system where someone could click the wrong button and send that alert by mistake to the whole state? It boggles the mind.

Speaking of panic, did you see that story (I saw on TV news last night) about the large commercial airline jet that just about fell off a cliff when its landing went haywire? It was only saved by its wheels catching in the mud of the cliff. It looked to be at a ~60 degree angle. The people on board must have shit and peed their pants. The story said that no one on board was hurt. But panic? Whoa!

Reminds me of the politically incorrect joke about "insert country of origin here" pilots. Pilot: "Wow, that runway sure was sort". Co-pilot: "Yeah, but it sure is wide".

 

[Kaido]

 

[zinfamous]

took me a little while to fully get it, but I lol'd

 

[Kaido]

The plot thickens! Hawaii’s false missile alert sent by worker believing attack on U.S. was imminent:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...le-alert-the-fcc-says/?utm_term=.ebd6c769bd40

The emergency worker who sent a false public safety alert on Jan. 13 warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack on Hawaii believed that a ballistic missile was truly bound for the state after mishearing a recorded message as part of an unscheduled drill, according to a preliminary investigation by federal officials.

Event summary:

1. Night-shift supervisor decided to test incoming day-shift workers with a spontaneous drill.

2. The day-shift supervisor was supposedly aware of the test, but thought it was aimed at the outgoing night-shift workers & was not prepared to supervise the morning test.

3. The night-shift supervisor, posing as Pacific Command, played a recorded message to the emergency workers warning them of the fake threat. The message included the phrase “Exercise, exercise, exercise.” But the message inaccurately included the phrase “This is not a drill.”

4. The worker who then sent the emergency alert failed to hear the “exercise” portion of the message and acted upon the “This is not a drill” part of the message that should not have been included.

5. The mistake was not stopped by the Hawaii emergency management agency's computer systems because there is little difference between the user interface for submitting test alerts and the one for sending actual alerts.

6. Three minutes after the message was sent, the day-shift supervisor received the false cellphone alert, and the process of responding to the mistake began. The emergency management agency notified Hawaii Gov. David Ige of the problem. Seven minutes after the alert was sent, officials stopped broadcasting the alert — but because there was no plan for how to handle a false alert, the agency could not issue an official correction.

7. It was not until 26 minutes into the crisis that officials settled on a proper way to inform the public about the all-clear, and workers began drafting a correction. It took another 14 minutes after that for the correction to be distributed.

Aside from the various process failures, the weirdest part of the story is why the message "inaccurately included the phrase 'this is not a drill'".

 

[highland145]

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