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Anyone else wondering this?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)What if they shutdown the national power grid five seconds after everyone was sent that text?
Can you say "madness in the streets", boys and girls? I knew you could.
We need to secure our shit from hackers. NOW!
procon
(15,805 posts)Today it's just a message, but how far away are they from a missile launch?
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)apparently I'm not the only one.
Coming to a state near you.. new normal. Brought to us be the deplorables - the 1/3 of Americans who are ruining life for the rest of the world. This cannot continue.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)She just posted on Facebook, cursing everyone who voted for Trump.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)People were panicking and wondering what to do. Word got out quickly that it was a false alarm, but people remain rattled. Usually test emergency alarms are announced in advance and this one said the threat was extreme and not a test.
This is it--tRump has got to go. He and his relationship with Russia is a disaster. He is a menace to the world. We need to drive him out NOW and try hard to restore some sort of order. This alert shows how very vulnerable we are with that jackass.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)pandr32
(11,588 posts)He has to be escorted off the property. It is our property--all of us and he has been shitting in it and on everything--all our institutions, relationships with other countries, protections and laws and everything long enough.
Republicans need to be called to account. Time to run Trump out of DC.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)I don't care what it takes or how it happens. Mueller, prostitutes, impeachment. Whatever is quickest
Thank god he was golfing.
Cha
(297,302 posts)This is the first I'm hearing about it.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)Hopefully something like this never happens again!
Now we need to find out where shelters actually are and if they are usable. A friend on this island was told the shelters are in "disrepair"--not a good thing.
Time to get rid of the usurper in the White House and repair our standing in the world
Cha
(297,302 posts)Sorry, you all had to go through it.
An employee pushed the wrong button.. oh wow.
Aloha, pandr, and Mahalo!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)This really makes me angry. I have family there.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)no mistake, or glitch. This false alarm was a deliberate act. So many entities with motive, hard to land on one whos most likely.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)For our state safety systems. I don't buy it.
If it were a hack, this would be the explanation, right? It would not be admitted.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)"An employee hit the wrong button during a shift change, which triggered the false missile alert warning, according to the Governor of Hawaii."
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/01/13/hawaii-false-missile-alert-wrong-button-sidner-nr.cnn
davekriss
(4,618 posts)...that our national security could not be jeopardized by something so easily preventable as an employee hit the wrong button during a shift change. Good grief!!
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)john657
(1,058 posts)An employee, during shift change, pushed the wrong button, according to the Governor of Hawaii.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... I'm not buying it
He was in the room with these guys in the last couple of days
I don't trust Nazi Don
john657
(1,058 posts)who is a Democrat BTW.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)john657
(1,058 posts)but sometimes it's exactly what it is, a colossal mistake.
former9thward
(32,023 posts)http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37259684/ballistic-missile-threat-alert-sent-to-hawaii-phones-was-a-mistake
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Interesting.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)Coincidence? NFW. Maclolm Nance says coincidence takes a lot of planning.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/asia/japan-false-missile-alarm-intl/index.html
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)In Japan???