Hawaii residents received false emergency alert about an incoming missile

I just heard it was 38 minutes before a 'false alarm' message was finally issued Also, Hawaii has no bomb shelters, so people are supposed to protect themselves from a nuclear blast by moving away from the windows in their offices and homes, or by getting out of their cars and lying flat on the ground.

St_Worm2 said:

Also, Hawaii has no bomb shelters, so people are supposed to protect themselves from a nuclear blast by moving away from the windows in their offices and homes, or by getting out of their cars and lying flat on the ground.

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Lol... that'll do the trick.

What a scary situation...

I'm curious how that works because I don't use a cellphone. A government agency can just send out messages to every phone number? Or do people subscribe for something like that?

Chesterton said:

I'm curious how that works because I don't use a cellphone. A government agency can just send out messages to every phone number? Or do people subscribe for something like that?

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The former. Possible alerts include imminent threats to safety, messages from the US president, and AMBER (child abduction) alerts.

mala said:

lol messages from the president.
you wake up one morning and you see covfefe

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People actually predicted that trump would use this message system quite often. As per usual, they were wrong.

mala said:

lol messages from the president.
you wake up one morning and you see covfefe

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That would certainly make me to move fast to nearest bomb shelter.

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St_Worm2 said:

I just heard it was 38 minutes before a 'false alarm' message was finally issued Also, Hawaii has no bomb shelters, so people are supposed to protect themselves from a nuclear blast by moving away from the windows in their offices and homes, or by getting out of their cars and lying flat on the ground.

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You mean most states in America don't have bomb shelters. But the trouble maker Trump.

mala said:

Hawaii residents received false emergency alert about an incoming missile



30 minutes to push a correction...

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As someone who grew up in the Cold war I can appreciate the fear of imminent nuclear annihilation that characterised most of my childhood. It is a real shame that American administrations over the last 20 years have turned a blind eye to the growing problem in North Korea and done nothing about it. Now that same fear has returned after decades of relief. Trump might be too late to correct the damage but he is right that the era of strategic patience with North Korea has been a disaster. China is the key to this crisis and until they see that it is not in their best interest to have a nuclear armed rogue state on their doorstep little will change.

St_Worm2 said:

Hawaii has no bomb shelters, so people are supposed to protect themselves from a nuclear blast by moving away from the windows in their offices and homes, or by getting out of their cars and lying flat on the ground.

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OR - as they told us when we were kids:

Look for a spike in the birth rate in October...

At least it does demonstrate that the warning system works, even if it works a touch too well. There've been quite a few idle questions here (UK) about what we've got, which it turns out is announcements on TV and Radio and that's about it.