Missile threat to hawaii seek shelter immediately? Not a drill

Yeah, this blowing up on twitter.

You better not be lying, OP

OP is not lying, it is all over social media r2.

A test, I hope?

Bye!

WTF?

Not lying i am scared!! No sirens though what is up??

Some people on Twitter are pointing out only iPhones got the alert. Not sure if that means anything.

[quote] what is up??

It's not what's up, but what's coming down. Fire and fury like the world has never seen.

[quote]Pentagon duty press officer is not able to comment on any missile threat to Hawaii.

Tulsi Gabbard just tweeted it's a false alarm.

The Japs again?????

Bitches they just woke me up in lol and scared the crap out of me

Yes, it was confirmed to be a mistake

[quote]NO missile threat to Hawaii.

Tee hee! Just kidding!

It was a MISTAKE? How come we haven’t had this kind of mistake happen before the incompetent Trump administration took over.

Imagine the panic this can cause.

Your'e living in Hawaii for gods sake... stop the whining. What's a little fallout when the rest of us are freezing to death.

Thank God.

What about the guy with the bigger button. Anybody told him its false.

r19 He's golfing

[quote]Who is being fired for mistakenly sending out an emergency alert of an incoming ICBM headed towards Hawaii? What if the President had been scrolling through Twitter and saw that? We could all be dead by now because someone messed up and POTUS decided to Twitter-Order a response

Errors like this are disastrous, now people aren't going to trust such a message if they see it again in the future. Assume it is just mistake.

Imagine if this tweet had been directed at California. Utter chaos.

Haha twitter-ordered a nuclear strike

Heh heh heh heh heh heh...

Heh heh heh heh heh heh

Poor people

[quote]People were running and in tears...wow. That was a scary 20 minutes. #hawaii #falsealarm

Maybe I'll press the red button anyway.

Not the wed won!!!!

I have my World War 3 Google notifications turned off on my phone. Thanks all the same..

The Ruling Class like to keep us living in fear. They can get away with more shit that way. "They contrive to frighten us" as Morrissey might say.

Unless some despotic leader really wanted to blow up Hawaii because he didn't like one of the reruns of 'Hawaii 5 O'.

I'm here in Hawaii. A little after 8AM, our cell phones started going crazy with the alert. Overhead, jet planes were deployed. It was surreal because it's a beautiful, clear day with birds chirping.

One news channel repeated the warning, with no details. Twitter was the only place where I was able to find any information.

Seriously people were running and crying? Go down with dignity people

I'll take wind and rain over a nuclear bomb any day.

That’s actually terrifying, R31.

Forgive my cynicism but I suspect this is just a test for a Kremlin grid takeover.

Russians hacking again?

OMG, are Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan okay?! I hope they're still safely snuggling together in bed this morning.

Trump diverting attention from "Trump chasing me around the room in his tighty whities" porn star statement.

Do people really think Kim Jong Un would really attempt to bomb the United States?

Yep r32, many reports of people understandably freaking out

[quote]Ridiculous, you think they would have given everyone a heads up on this. People are crying in shelter and panicking everywhere

This scared me and I’m in NYC!

Someday soon, this won't be a drill.

Nor a false alarm.

[quote]Do people really think Kim Jong Un would really attempt to bomb the United States?

I wouldn't put anything past Kim Jong Un. He is not a reasonable human being. Sadly neither is our leader right now.

BTW, on Saturdays, we have only one live local news show on TV (KITV). The news anchor is ex-American Idol twink Jordan Segundo. Nice to look at, but I would hate to have him as the only reliable source of streaming news of this magnitude.

It's 8:45AM, and they just alerted us on the emergency warning system that it was a false alarm.

r42 It's nothing but saber rattling to prevent a U.S strike. I'm assuming they are well aware that their regime would be over if they attacked the U.S

[quote]It's 8:45AM, and they just alerted us on the emergency warning system that it was a false alarm.

Insanity that it took them that long to tell people it is a false alarm. Not everyone stalks twitter for info.

Alert was on my iPhone but not the company Samsung.

Tom Selleck actually told me to pull out when he saw the message on his phone and he NEVER does that.

Where do you seek shelter immediately from a ballistic missile??

FYI, the warning came both on my iPhone and on my husband's Samsung phone.

If any country starts World War 3 it will be the United States (especially with nutcase Trump at the helm).

It was a Russian who bravely refused orders to press the button during the Cold War. We all owe a massive debt of gratitude to unsung hero VASILY ARKHIPOV.

People were crying and running everywhere?

Such drama!

This is absolutely terrifying. I suspect a false flag.

It was just Trump trying to order Chinese take-out.

R51 just in Waikiki where all the tourists stay lol

North Korea is not the enemy. The United States is trying create enemies. The United States is the threat to world peace here not Russia or North Korea. FFS. We are being played by our leaders.

Ha ha ha! @ reply 29

Oh, Russia is very much a huge threat to world piece, r55, as is North Korea.

We live in a country where Donald Trump is president and people are shocked when things start going incredibly wrong.

When I was a kid living in Missouri, a local TV channel played the "emergency warning system" thing but accidentally used the ACTUAL emergency one, which said to stay tuned for a message from the President. Freaked my little kid mind out.

How did people react?

This is absolutely my worst nightmare since I saw The Day After at the age of 12.

Check out the Russian troll at R55.

r55 is correct that the biggest global threat is Donald fuckin Trump.

R55 is a moron.

There is no bona fide shelter in Hawaii is there?

It wasn't real this time, but see how scary it would be if it were? Do you understand now why we must start a preemptive war with North Korea? To stop the fear!

It's one way to distract from Trump's shithole remark in the news. Nothing would surprise me.

Nobody is talking about shitholes and porn stars anymore, are they? Now the conversation will become how terrifying this was for America and how we can't live with this fear so we must strike first.

Is this a state run system or a federal?

This is why we can't have nice things

Trump is an asshole, but he's got some pretty smart people working for him who pulled this off.

R67 majority of people will actually feel the opposite of that and will want Trump to de-escalate the fire and fury rhetoric

r70 Woah woah woah I wouldn't call them smart, It doesn't take much brains to trip a system, and I doubt Trump profits off scaring the American people.

Lol so they scared the crap out of hawaii's residents to deflect from Trump's shittiness?

To me it reads as more or less a tacit threat from Trump — stop exposing my obvious treason or I will start a thermonuclear war!

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tweeted “it was a false alarm based on human error. There is nothing more important to Hawaii than professionalizing and fool-proofing this process."

The fact that this happened in Hawaii, which has been concerned that NK missiles could reach the islands, is cause for alarm.

I'm the one who saw a false alarm in MO back in the 1970s and no one was concerned because it didn't make sense for MO to get bombed. Hawaii sadly is a target again. Very unnerving.

Not good enough, Brian. How did it happen? Who ordered it? Who has the power to order such a warning, and who has universal access to all iPhones?

[quote]BTW, on Saturdays, we have only one live local news show on TV (KITV). The news anchor is ex-American Idol twink Jordan Segundo. Nice to look at, but I would hate to have him as the only reliable source of streaming news of this magnitude.

RUDE!

We're hearing comments about this from everyone except the POTUS. I guess nothing can interrupt his golfing.

Bet this proves to be hackers from a "foreign country" trying to stir some shit. Something like this ought to jar people and make them realize that the fact that this administration has totally ignored the cyber threats that have been covered in the media for the past three years or more, and have done nothing to fight back and protect us,while it has been reported that Russia is busy and openly going about the hacking attacks with renewed vigor?

We need to impeach, try, and convict this piece of shit Traitor NOW! And get rid of the fuckers in Congress who supported him. Because no matter whether or not they get their come to Jesus moment and have an 11th hour conversion and suddenly decide to do the right thing, they have allowed this living pile of excrement to soil himself all over us for too long. Shit. An hour would be too long. All of them need to go. And I'd have the fucking Koch Brothers charged with Treason. Mercers too.

Can they point it towards Alaska instead?

This doesn't have anything to do with Trump's deregulation agenda, does it??

R79, POTUS most likely is getting dinner plates thrown at him by FLOTUS. With Bannon sitting Indian style on the floor, munching on popcorn.

Oddly enough, around the same time this happened in Hawaii, we had fighter jets fly overhead, twice, in Pittsburgh.

Realistically Guam would be the most accessible target.

R81 yes at the Palins house please not beautiful hawaii!

According to a December 2017 piece by CNN, it is very difficult to trigger the emergency system accidentally:

“The attack warning siren test will be triggered from inside the 6-feet-thick concrete walls of a civil defense bunker nestled under the rock and dirt of the Diamond Head volcano crater, near Honolulu on the island of Oahu.”

I guess Alaska isn't as sexy a target

R81 and R86, Alaska is far more beautiful than Hawaii. Oh, and my whole family lives there.

I wonder if someone murdered a spouse during the panic.

A few weeks ago I had dream that aerial combat broke out over my city on the east coast, and I could hear planes going down. In my dream I was so scared I could barely move fast enough. Then I woke up in pool of sweat. I feel horrible for these people who got the shock of life this morning!

I'm not so much of a conspiracy theorist to think that the WH wanted this "false alarm," but I would bet that the fatboss tweets to capitalize on it in a matter of hours, if not minutes.

Fucking false alarms on this level should not happen. It is not like a fake bomb threat called in to a school on final exam day (which happens somewhere in every state, every year)

I wonder if that person posting he had a “bad feeling” yesterday about something big coming was posting from Honolulu.

r92 I'm sure his team is thinking hard on how to capitalize on this, that's what's taking so damn long. First they need to drag his fat ass off the golf course

[quote]Is this a state run system or a federal?

Anyone?

Are we sure someone who works for a provider like Verizon or Sprint or whatever can't trigger one of these emergency notifications?

"The president is back home at Mar-a-Lago. WH referring requests for comment to Department of Defense."

In other words, the President doesn't want to be bothered when he's watching reruns of "Joanie Loves Chachi".

The weather is spectacular in Palm Beach today. Fatass will definitely NOT be commenting.

[quote] l so they scared the crap out of hawaii's residents to deflect from Trump's shittiness

Not just Hawaii. They did it to scare the whole country. "What if it wasn't a mistake? What if it was real? What if the US launched missiles based on a false alarm? We'd all be dead. Who did this? How did they do it? Why did it take 18 minutes (or however long it took) to notify everyone it's a false alarm? Who's in charge of sending those alarms? Could Russia have hacked not the civil defence system?"

R87 So it was intercepted or what?? Mistakes this big don't happen!

Y'all stop digging up dirt on me or I'll blow all your rear-ends to smithereens!

President Baby would never order a nuclear strike. That would destabilize the markets, including the stock exchange, and his rich buddies will not like that. The whole reason for being for them is to get richer.

My first thoughts were that Trump's team is behind this. What better way to get the public behind a strike against NK than to scare the hell out of them.

Gurl, the governor is saying someone accidentally hit the Armageddon alert button in emergency center when they were changing shifts!

So the gotdamn button is available for anyone to push?

I wonder too, r100. As I said up thread, we had fighter jets overhead in Pittsburgh around the same time. Keep in mind, Pittsburgh is close to DC with a lot of open country in between the two.

Many Hawaiian caftans were hurriedly flouncing in the breeze on this historic day!

Too cold in Warshinton, brrrr!

Who among us HASN'T accidentally hit the Armageddon button with our ass?

[quote]Why did it take 18 minutes (or however long it took)

Alert sent at 8:08, false alarm sent at 8:45.

It took them 37 damn minutes to correct.

[quote]Who among us HASN'T accidentally hit the Armageddon button with our ass?

the employee must have a big ass then.

I thought you were kidding r104, but yes the story is "someone accidentally hit the button during shift change"

Are you fucking kidding me?

White House, per Fox News, claiming this was a "state exercise"

If it's true the alert was only sent to iPhones, I think this was a hack.

So, will the Armeggedon button tweet about its #metoo moment?

"Someone pushed the wrong button".

Bullshit it was a shift-change accident. It took them 37 minutes to correct. If it has been an accident it would have been corrected immediately.

Lots of other Pittsburghers here. We should have a meet.

The fighter jets scare the shit out of me, too, but then I have to remind myself -- They're "practicing" for their flyover of the football game. Because fuckin' Steelers are worth terrifying the population over.

Goddamn yinzer douchebags.

Here's a thought: What if higher ups in the intelligence or military community did this to show the man in charge that he can't be so impulsive when it comes to NK?

Wow, what a coincidence in timing, r118. Do they do these flyover often? I know about the fireworks, but the flyover was a first for me.

Amazing that our fucking President who lives to tweet could not be bothered to interrupt his golfing to tweet about this.

According to MSNBC, there is no way that this was a test because the button is in a bunker behind 6-ft-thick walls, with people specifically trained to push the button ONLY if and when they receive a call from Pacific Command. So either it was hacked, it was intentional, or there was a real belief that a missile was inbound.

Is it possible that a real missile was intercepted by THAAD, but the military is trying its damnedest to keep it under wraps in an attempt to avoid an escalation?

Shall we play a game?

r122 Trump wants to be a great military leader, no way he passes on a chance if a real missle came inbounds. They wouldn't cover it up.

If the emergency alert is network connected, which it would have to be, it's susceptible to hacking. This could have been human error or it could be that. I'm sure we will find out soon what happened. No system is 100% foolproof, to everyone posting above saying it must be perfect, that's not possible.

That being said, who cares? You can't do anything if a nuclear missile is headed your way, so why stress over it and freak out? As I get older I worry less and less about this stuff.

R120. They do it all. The. Goddamned. Time. Because yahoos who love football are the same types of yahoos who get a kick out of a display by the Military-Industrial Complex, or what, I don't understand.

[quote]R122 Trump wants to be a great military leader, no way he passes on a chance if a real missle came inbounds. They wouldn't cover it up.

No, not Trump, R124. USPACOM. The military is well aware of what Trump's impulse would be, and I'm hoping some Admiral somewhere would have the sense to cover it up, at least in the short term, to avoid Armageddon.

Ooops wrong remote! No wonder I couldn't get Fox and Friends this morning! Sad!

Well now I'm depressed. I'm in Honolulu and I don't do the Twitter, so my last moments (had this been real) would've been futzing around with you whores here on Datalounge.

This is a false alarm. It has already been confirmed. Y'all dumb asses need to learn to do some simple Google research before believing something on any social media site. No wonder Trump got elected.

That should fill you with joy R129!

Apparently Governor Ige of Hawaii KNEW it was a false alarm almost immediately, but did not issue a retraction. Senator Brian Schatz reported that he had to call the governor TWICE and insist that a retraction be issued over the same emergency alert system. Ige was going to send out an email!

Bottom line - 38 minutes before a correction was issued.

R130, thanks for that timely update.

The irony coming from someone who couldn't be bothered to read the recent posts in this very thread.

I'm confused, were there sirens going off in the air, or solely the phone alerts?

[quote]Y'all dumb asses

Sweetie, trust me, you should not go around calling other people dumb.

Serious question: is it true that cell phones are the primary emergency nuke alert system now? Don't a lot of people put them aside when vacationing in Hawaii?

It has to be a hack. The question is why the government is taking responsibility, and with such a lame excuse.

R75, I turned FOX on just to watch their take on it, and what you wrote, is pretty much their take on the whole thing!!!

Who knew we had so many posters who live in Hawaii. Feel like island life would drive me crazy.

Good god, R126, you mean my apartment is going to shake again tomorrow too? Geeze, that was scary with CNN talking about the alert and then fighters overhead.  You'd think that someone would have tweeted that everything was fine here given what was going on in Hawaii.

Sorry that post was for r65. The

Relax, everyone, we're just practicing for our upcoming air show!

That dishy Jacob Soborof was out surfing when the alert went out. Naked.

Fox News talking points:

"People forget that under President Obama, missile threats like this happened ALL THE TIME."

"This would never have happened if Hillary was more careful about her e-mails!"

I am sure that Putin has had control of our military satellites and energy grids for several years now. During Obama's presidency, I never understood why they weren't willing to reveal this even if it meant going to war with Russia. Obviously, Dump is never going to go to war with Russia. I do wonder, however, if the current situation might lead to someone high up in military intelligence spilling the beans as a means of dethroning Dump.

whoever mentioned world saver Vasili Arkhipov upthread forgot to mention he was a dream boat! Thanks for not starting WWIII Vasili honey.

Oh fuck yes, R144!

I really admire Jacob Soboroff's expansive coverage.

Woah, R147! That is one handsome man!

Now Trump's critics will beg for him to protect them. Things change in an instant.

r130 welcome to the thread. Perhaps you should read it.

R151 his stupidy has hawaii and guam on edge something that never happened under obama/bush!

If Jacob was really naked, someone post full body shots, please! Thanks!

Wow. This would mess with people.

r149 wins today's prize for the best Jacob picture.

Soboroff is shaky

Stupid fucking Dem leaders in Hawaii set off a false alarm and it's Trumps fault? You cunts are really that stupid?

What kind of shelter works for a missile threat?

r158 I seriously doubt the leaders in Hawaii had anything to do with this. I also doubt Trump had anything to do with this, except possibly by not ramping up counterintelligence and defending the nation's networks and aging infrastructure. He's too busy passing Republican dream bills that are all about making him and their donors wealthier.

Actually, it may very well be Trump's fault, now that I read this:

"It is unclear how or why the initial alert was sent out, and how many people received it. Wireless emergency alerts are usually dispatched during critical emergency situations and are a partnership between the Federal Communications Commission, FEMA and the wireless industry. Shortly after the false alarm, FCC chairman Ajit Pai said the commission was launching an investigation into what happened."

I am thinking hawaii was hacked and they would rather blame human error than alarm people with how easily they could be hacked!

Anyone remember the emergency alert system that George W. brought into being and then abused, with the alert level being raised at suspicious times?

r162: They won't know what happened immediately.

Russian or NK hack???

And this bitch immediately shifts any possible blame to the state:

On Saturday, deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said President Trump had been briefed on the situation. She added that it was “purely a state exercise.”

Maybe she should wait and see how it happened.

Why were journalists tweeting that it was a "state exercise" if it was really a false alarm????? Those are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

r166 she's not a journalist, she's a PR person for the White House.

R159 High School gym

Right R167... I was typing as you posted. I was referring to the journalists' tweets, but as you note the main source was the White House.

What.On.Earth?

As someone said above, it’s one of three possibilities — hacking, purposeful enactment or a missile really was on the way but was contained.

Also, it was not just phone text messages, the emergency notice was broadcast over television as well. This to me suggests options 1 or 3.

R170 Were there also air alarms going?

Kam Fong as Chin Ho

Zulu as Kono

The fault lies with Trump. Trump fuck caused this problem. By the way, it ain't no golfing weather here. So shithead cost you a million, for nothing.

Just wondering if there were air alarms, but those weren't turned on, and it was only tv/phones that were activated. Or maybe there isn't an air alarm system...

Breaking News! It was just a school of humuhumunukunukuapua'a that went swimming by. Everybody hukilau!

why are people immediatelly looking to DL for confirmation of an emergency alert? for fucks sake find some kind of shelter first then get on DL and post. if a fire alarm went off would you logon to DL first to confirm before taking action?

And don't fucking wait to hear the air sirens if you see a phone/tv alert. It's an outdated 1950's warning system meant for people standing outside.

Why are you assuming they weren't already in their place of shelter and didn't look for comfirmation elsewhere first...??

God damn! I woke up at 9:30 so I slept through the whole thing! At the very least, I could say I died in my sleep. Well, if I could talk after, you know, dying.

Okay, so I'm just going to assume there was no air system going off.

In a word, yes, R158.

r158....Its a federally run program overseen by FEMA

I would have freaked if I were in Hawaii and got that message! A missile strike from NK certainly feels plausible at the moment.

I know that no system is foolproof and maybe they're telling the truth about an employee having sent it accidentally, but why did it take so long to clarify that it was a mistake? I wonder if it was the result of a hacking.

FEMA is really just a central resources management agency for coordinating emergency services, R182. State and local agencies are always going to provide the first response.

They don't actually provide food or shelter or get the power back on or provide security--that would be the Red Cross/National Guard/various contractors. They're not dispatchers remotely triggering missile sirens, they're paper pushers. They might push those papers faster than most federal bodies but that's still their basic function.

I am here and live near the biggest military base on the most populated island! I was freaked, totally numb and searching online frantically and hoping it wasn't real.

I am seeing that some military personnel got the missile alert 20 minutes earlier hmmmm.

Meanwhile "The President" hasn't even bothered to issue a response. Except to tweet bashing Democrats an hour ago.

They trashed W. for waiting five minutes to do something on 9/11, yet it's been almost FIVE HOURS since this false alarm and he has DONE NOTHING.

If this isn't "Dereliction of duty" and an impeachable offense, I don't know what is.

Sorry, it was a tweet to boast about how he won the election.

Obviously, a much more pressing matter than this.

If military got the alarm 20 minutes earlier than means it was a genuine scare and not an accident. You don’t accidentally push that button once and alert the military, then push it a second time to alert the public 20 minutes later, then wait another 37 minutes to tell the public it was a “mistake”.

People are reporting they received panicked phone calls from relatives who live in Hawaii saying goodbye. Lots of terror and tears.

As someone pointed out on reddit though, there weren't any alarms going off for the people in Guam and that other territory that's possibly in the path (can't remember the name right now). Just Hawaii.

[quote]Ray Gerst was vacationing on Oahu with his wife to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary. Just as they pulled up for their tour of Kualoa Ranch, they received the alert.“All the buses stopped, and people came running out of the ranch and said, ‘Just sit still for a minute, nobody get off the bus, nobody get off the bus,’” he said. They were taken into the mountains, Mr. Gerst said, and dropped off at a concrete bunker. They sheltered in place for about 15 minutes, he said, during which time they had no cell signal. “It was scary,” Mr. Gerst said. “I mean, there was no intel.”

I don't know...Something about this is suspicious. I believe someone hacked into the system as a dry run or they intercepted a missile. I feel it is probably the former.

[quote]there weren't any alarms going off for the people in Guam and that other territory that's possibly in the path (can't remember the name right now

The Northern Mariana Islands.

R193, those are what appears to be the two most likely possibilities, if the military was alerted twenty minutes before the public.

No one pushing this "military was alerted first" thing has posted a source....

Thank you R194!

Oh damn, I'm Bad !!! Sorry

Thank God evil Republican FCC chair Ajit Pai is opening a FULL investigation into this! $10 says he'll try to use this as a tool to annoy Hawaii's Democratic leadership with.

Putin & Trump want everyone scared because Muller is getting too close. NK sent a missile days after meeting with the South and weeks before the Pyongyang Olympics they just got invited to? Riiiight comrade traitors.

Poor girl

She's a ditz , probably went out on the balcony to look for the missle. The boyfriend was prob in the middle of rubbing one out when she came in. Lifeguard at the gene pool

Who was filming her as she was running around ?

She was! Was periscoping lol

Lol "Panic! But keep filming yourself?!?!"

You know she's thinking DEAR GOD, IF I SURVIVE I COULD BE A VIRAL STAH!!@#

r38

The idiotic ones do.

I have R207 blocked.

Wasn't DIana Ross in Hawaii for a concert ?

Did military personnel get warned early or is that just one of the many rumors floating around?

The REAL story is that a missile was fired but fell short of Hawaii. Sadly, Atlantis was destroyed in the conflagration.

I would have eaten every bit of fattening food in my house. Why not? I'm gonna die, right? I have frosting in the fridge (no, I have nothing to do with that stupid frosting thread)

R212 if you did that today in Hawaii you would prob drop dead from a heart attack from the combination of the stress and added saturated fat

Reading about this is scary. I lived in downtown honolulu when 0/11 happened. Rumors were flying that there were planes on their way, and I could see the fighter jets from my office window. It was such a beautiful day, the birds were chirping, and everything had changed. This, however, would be a much more terrifying experience. There would be nowhere to go.

At least it didn’t happen on a weekday when kids would be in school. Or maybe it was planned to happen on a Saturday.

Da R215.

Jordan Segundo is now a tv anchor? I've got to see if I can get the broadcast on the internet, he was such a hottie. I remember getting his autograph in San Francisco back in 2004 on a poster with his shirt open, SO HOT!

Perhaps the more human thing would have been to not give any warning. One second I'm eating pineapple and SPAM, next minute I am radioactive toast.

Were these colored missiles ?

FAT WHORES, STAY IN YOUR BASEMENTS

R218 here. I wasn't mocking what happened or Hawaii. I don't know if I would want to be told. If the ballistic missile was nuclear (are they all?), I'd really prefer to die quickly not knowing what the fuck happened to me and everyone else I care about.

The military were already aware that the origin of the threat was actually a black bean burrito bowl consumed by a Gunners Mate Second Class at the Taco del Mar in the JB Pearl Hickam Exchange Complex, R210. Unfortunately, by the time it was established that GM2 posed no danger beyond the immediate environs of Van Valkenburg Avenue, news of the concussions and subsequent alarms (actually a CO2 alarm in nearby base housing) were already all over Twitter.

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When one thinks of it, Alaska makes much more sense as a strategic target due to its oil fields. It's also closer to Pyongyang than Hawaii. Or does tourism create generate more money than the oil production? Psychologically, it would have a greater effect to hit an iconic tourist spot.

Hawaii and Alaska are expendable, R224.

- The Lower 48

R224 guess they want to recreate pearl harbor but I agree with Alaska making more sense.

R225 rather lose the shitty deplorable filled flyover states no one cares about like west virginia/nebraska/alabama would anyone miss them?

It was a joke, R227. God your thought process is so limited.

Slept through the whole thing. Was really pissed it was a false alarm and I still had to go to work. Fucking assholes.

They can't hit Alaska R224, Putin wants it back. He probably already has the paperwork drafted for his puppet to sign.

Alaska is actually closer to North Korea than Hawaii, though Guam is by far the closest American target.

Hmmm... From Jan 5:

"An emergency earthquake warning sent to millions of people in Japan caused a brief panic on Friday and disrupted Tokyo's transport network.

But the loud alert, which was sent to millions of mobile phones, turned out to be a false alarm triggered by an error in the earthquake warning system."

Coincidence? Really?

r208

Miss Landers, Larry and the Beaver were talking after the bell rang. I told them just because you weren't in the room, doesn't mean they could talk after the bell rang but they did it anyway

[quote]I lived in downtown honolulu when 0/11 happened

I bet you also celebrated VD day too.

[quote]f the ballistic missile was nuclear (are they all?), I'd really prefer to die quickly not knowing what the fuck happened to me and everyone else I care about.

Which is the wrong attitude, something simple as standing behind a door, or pulling a curtain can stop the nuclear flash and save you from burns. Even in Hiroshima, which saw about 78,000 killed in all, had over 400,000 people in 1945, which means 83% of the people there lived.

You need to be informed.

R235, you are hilarious. They don't make nuclear bombs as small as the one that hit Hiroshima anymore.

Yeah the bombs dropped on Japan might seem bad but they are nothing compared to modern nuclear weapons. It is not a realistic comparison of what would happen with a nuclear strike today.

What is the point of such a warning? There’s nowhere to go. This is all about scaring people.

They ended "duck and cover" drills in school when I was in first grade. But in kindergarten and the first part of the following year, we would learn to get under our little desks and cover our faces, facing away from windows.

Weird, but oddly not scary. We were too young to understand much about The Bomb.

Wtf? We never had an atomic air raid drill in school after 1966, R239. Where did you live?

[quote]Yeah the bombs dropped on Japan might seem bad but they are nothing compared to modern nuclear weapons. It is not a realistic comparison of what would happen with a nuclear strike today.

Yes NK's last test was estimated to have a yield of up to 140kt, about 10x the power of the Hiroshima bomb. But they probably have yet to miniaturize the design to place atop a missile.

Central New York State, r240. Born in 1965, started school fall of 1970 and they were still doing the drills into the start of of fall 1971 year. I have memories of my first-grade teacher walking around and making sure we were all properly tucked under out little desks.

I guess it may have been phased out on a local basis, or state by state?

We will all go home to be with the Lord one day, one way or another. We shouldnt be afraid of death, this life is only temporary.

[quote]We will all go home to be with the Lord one day

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Oh hunty, I were cleaning dat counter top and rested my elbow in the WRONG place, haaaa!

Can’t wait for Rachel tomorrow night.

To the Pittsburghers: the football game fighter planes just went over my house. Duck and cover!

[quote]why are people immediatelly looking to DL for confirmation of an emergency alert? for fucks sake find some kind of shelter first then get on DL and post. if a fire alarm went off would you logon to DL first to confirm before taking action?

Maybe they want to read and post jokes about it before taking shelter.

The WTC was an insatiable bottom on data lounge before the second plane hit.

I had a dream Friday night, really Saturday morning that there was a nuclear war.

I was outside, looking up at the clouds with a friend, in an area like a beach and a field or park - a large wide-open space. All of a sudden we saw a coming out of the clouds a fighter jet that dropped a bomb which was coming down, landing toward us. It was coming down so quickly we didn't have time to run anywhere and when it landed I was wondering if I was dead or alive. Then I woke up. (And then posted on DL, of course: See link).

It scared me because it was such a realistic and scary dream and also scared me a bit because I have had a few precognitive dreams

[quote] I have had a few precognitive dreams

Well, that wasn't one of them.

As many others have said, in the event of what seems to be a real emergency, what fucked instinct leads people to hold up their phones and record video?

Or maybe it's normal behavior now.

I hope not, R251.

I guess they could have been testing the system - to see if it worked on phones. And maybe to see if people would panic?

Here's the most accurate portrayal of what would have happened if this was a real attack

Yes, R252. I think I would want to be around someone without that mentality in an emergency.

A lot of our 9/11 video came from camcorders

Sorry Folks! nothin to see here. Dumb ass employee pushed the w rong button. Everything is fine. FINE. Seriously. Don't worry. We got this.

It's bizarre that a system like that wasn't coded with a dual approval system. Probably some millennials writing in JavaScript.

.....and as the catastrophe unfolds, the world leaders and elite who caused the destruction will be safely squirreled away in a bunker.

Hmmmm...

The earthquake alarm in Japan. This in Hawaii. Any other public warning/alarms set off anywhere else recently as well?

All sounds a lot like someone is learning how to interfere with and use these kind of systems. Kinda flexing their cyber-muscles.

Gotta wonder: to what end?

If it does happen I am pissed that Trump, the whore wife , the autistic son, the conniving daughter and son in law , along with Pence, "mother" and Kelly Anne will all be whisked away upon AirForce one to ride out armageddon and survive . So we will re populate the world from this gene pool? Oh boy !

Jacob was just on MSNBC. On a surfboard. Naked with nuthin on but a smile and a cockring.

R261, are you sure KellyAnne has one of those "get thee to a bunker" cards? Because there's a famous story about a Clinton communications staffer who denied they existed, only to find out later they did exist but she didn't have one. You know who I mean...the woman who went on to be an editor at Vanity Fair.

Truthfully, given the choice between fending for myself outside and being locked up with the first family and some of his key aides and congresspersons for months, I'd take my chances out in the world.

[quote] All sounds a lot like someone is learning how to interfere with and use these kind of systems. Kinda flexing their cyber-muscles.

Soemone's having a tantrum cause they can't come play at the Olympics.

[quote]being locked up with the first family and some of his key aides and congresspersons for months

Can you image a film or tape recording of the things they'd be saying?

Are TPTB so insane they want a nuclear war?

Yes R266 they imagine they're all going to be safe in their luxury bunkers and then emerge like Gods when the fallout clears into a beautiful de-populated paradise.

But who will be left to do their dry cleaning, R267?

If KellyAnne Conway stays, she can rinse things out in the sink.

There's a story I tell in the book about George Stephanopoulos when he was at the Clinton White House. And Aaron Sorkin, when he was doing the research for what became "The West Wing" and "The American President," was meeting with Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos pulls out this little evacuation card that Aaron Sorkin originally thinks is a bus pass only to realize that it's actually, you know, George Stephanopoulos' get-out-of-nuclear-war-free card.

And then when Aaron Sorkin incorporates this into a "West Wing" episode where the deputy chief of staff, Josh Lyman, gets one of these cards from the National Security Council, Dee Dee Myers, who was the press secretary at the time - the White House press secretary at the time - pulls Aaron Sorkin aside on the set and says, you know, Aaron, I think that this is crazy that you're doing this because these cards don't actually exist. And Aaron Sorkin realizes in that moment that Dee Dee Myers, who worked alongside George Stephanopoulos in the White House, never realized that she was not going to be saved in an evacuation but that George Stephanopoulos was.

R270 Does this mean Ali Wentworth gets saved, too?

Good question, R271.

Is Ali Wentworth considered "essential personnel?

R273 Well, you'd really have to ask George.

Is Sarah Huckabee essential personnel?

R275, I haven't had that conversation with the president, but as soon as I do I'll let y'all know

Has Trump still not commented on this??

[quote]The news anchor is ex-American Idol twink Jordan Segundo.

Only you and Jordan Segundo know this bit of non information.

Hawaii is a blue state and coughed up Barack Obama so no, The Dumpster doesn't give a rip about our state. I'm surprised he hasn't farted out a negative tweet about shitholes again.

Is this accurate? does anyone know?

R279...don't misinterpret this, because we are with you... but he may not understand that Hawaiians are actual American citizens.

Oh yeah? I challenge him to find us on a map.

R209 Ms. Ross was there , and shaken up apparently

One more reason to love Nicolle W:

She just showed the new cover of Germany's Der Speigel magazine.

Some of these magazine and newspaper cover artists are getting very creative and clever in their mocking. It must result in tantrums in the WH.

Ms Ross while in the basement of the hotel

R209 She was almost "In the middle of a Chain Reaction " for real....

This missile threat stinks but I'm not sure where the odor is coming from.

Diana discovered there Ain't No Mountain High Enough to escape a nuke!

Can you imagine in the 80s if someone came up to you and said: "In the future, everyone carries a phone with them at all time. People even sleep with them. Diana Ross got scared when she was rushed into the hotel basement when everyone in Hawaii got a message on the phone that a nuclear missile was headed for Hawaii. People were angry because President Donald Trump did not send a message on the phone but he took time to comment on a book that called him 'dumb as shit.'"

Who is this "President" Trump?

Of all people to be stuck in a basement with and having to go thru armageddon with Diana Ross would not be one of them

Is it real? Is it fake?

My children , everybody in Hawaii faced fear and anxiety over the unfortunate event that occured on Saturday morning . I will not lie , I was scared however God in all his greatness allowed us all breath a sigh of relief. I am glad to be home with my family and you my children my extended family.

I have decided to have the ushers at my future hand out pamphlets to what to do in the event there is an attack during a show . These will include a sample of my Diamond Diana perfume !! Much love and affection !!!! We all will Survive !!!!

^future concerts^

Still no explanation or word from the “president”?

And nothing on that fired ethics committee guy, either.

R297, you are a disgusting traitor for your support of homophobic Trump and Putin.

Fuck you, R297.