It was a false alarm based on a human error.
And we know which human who desperately wants an excuse to start the bombing.
Kind of a major “oops”.
Good lord.
Been through scrambles/drills in Alaska in the 60s on base when we were not told until afterwards that the exercise was a drill. Lived on Oahu and realized that there is really little recourse in an event like that.
I can imagine what must have been going through people’s heads when that went out.
Take shelter!
Uhhhh Where?
You are SOL if it’s real.
Lot of underwear being changed I’m sure
Thoughts and prayers to anyone scared shitless by this. I was on Twitter while it was happening and it seemed like it was over as soon as it started. But I doubt it felt that way in Honolulu.
Man, it’s hard enough keeping the wheels on this country at the best of times. To those responsible: Do better, assholes.
What are the chances this traces back to a couple of bored airmen daring each other for a lark?
Almost forty minutes passed between the initial warning and the nevermind. That’s a hell of a long time.
Not only am I wondering what mistake sent that out, I’m wondering why they couldn’t figure out that A) it was a mistake, and B) let the populace know. Politicians were confirming that it was a mistake long before official channels said so.
Somebody is going to fucking jail.
While I hate to be nitpicky and hypercritical of our government as it blows the rust off the old Cold War protocols and tries to figure out how to add imminent thermonuclear annihilation back into the list of weather emergencies and natural disasters the Emergency Alert System is now used to warn us about, I think it would be best if, in the future, their on-air broadcast nuclear attack alert tests did not include the words “THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
Would hope so if there was a loss of life related to this. I can imagine people suffering cardiac issues were pretty vulnerable to the stress.
Also, another shiny object for cable news.
On the other hand, Hawaii just made a lot of people’s day to day troubles seem a piffle.
Or Russian hackers.
Was the system being managed by Tom RIdge?
Thank you, President Trump, for making my children afraid of a nuclear attack on any given day now and making sure they never get an alert they can depend on.
Aloha, your filthy shithead.
Whaaaa? This could only happen under a trump administration and we all know it. This kind of fuck up is beyond the pale.
Probably Eric or Meatloaf.
I was thinking more along the lines of “Heck of a job, Brownie!..”
You mean the duck and cover drills I practiced in grammar school aren’t effective?