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I thought the same thing about people who made “ deathbed “confessions only for the all clear to be announced.it could potentially have ruined many lives.
originally posted by: notsure1
a reply to: VariableConstant
How many people just killed themselves or commited a murder suicide. Or decide to go on a raping spree . told their boss to F### off, Told their wife they were cheating, told their parents they were gay.
Hawaii has some splaining to do.
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There wasn't one false alarm.
There were two false alarms, according to reports now from the ground, about a half-hour apart.
They were not false alarms due to a mistake.
Someone really thought there was a missile coming in, and realized it was false only after a half-hour -- the point at which if it had been real everyone would have been incinerated. In other words yes, it was a "false alarm" because there was no missile but the people who sounded the alarm really believed there was an inbound attack.
originally posted by: penfold
I thought the same thing about people who made “ deathbed “confessions only for the all clear to be announced.it could potentially have ruined many lives.
originally posted by: notsure1
a reply to: VariableConstant
How many people just killed themselves or commited a murder suicide. Or decide to go on a raping spree . told their boss to F### off, Told their wife they were cheating, told their parents they were gay.
Hawaii has some splaining to do.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: carewemust
Are you serious? =(
It's the children who knew what the terror was about for me. It brings to mind the movie 'Testament' where the young girl asked her mom about sex and having babies..knowing she would never have those experiences.
I worry how these kids spent that time believing they might never grow up and experience things they had dreamed of for themselves.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: carewemust
Are you serious? =(
It's the children who knew what the terror was about for me. It brings to mind the movie 'Testament' where the young girl asked her mom about sex and having babies..knowing she would never have those experiences.
I worry how these kids spent that time believing they might never grow up and experience things they had dreamed of for themselves.
That's what many kids on the South and West Side of Chicago say.. And it's not just for a 38 minute window in time.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: face23785
If this was accidental in nature, then this serves to highlight problems in the system that, to me, should have been anticipated.
That's actually been the entire point of everything I've said on this issue.
originally posted by: dianajune
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: dianajune
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
It took them 37(38?) minutes to put out the official retraction. Can you imagine how much longer it would've taken if the President got involved in the middle of it too? Just going on TV or sending out a tweet doesn't fix it.
I'd hate to see the Potus get involved because he'd probably tweet something else stupid, leading to WW3.
That may sound political, but as much as I don't like it, politics is involved here.
That false alarm may have started with the State of Hawaii, but it would be appropriate, imho, for Potus to put out some kind of statement himself, rather than hide behind the White House statement which read that he'd been 'briefed.'
It didn't sound that political, just dumb. WW3 isn't gonna start with a tweet, the DNC has you brainwashed.
Sorry, I can think for myself, thank you very much.
No brainwashing going on here, and I can't stand the DNC.
Trump was stupid to say "my nuclear button is bigger than Kim's and it works." That's not conducive to a peace treaty between us and North Korea. He's said many other things on that website that make me question his ability to remain in office.
He needs to stop complaining about that book and address the people of Hawaii directly. He needs to put in his two cents worth re. what happened yesterday. That he doesn't make me wonder even more about him.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: face23785
I stand by my conclusion that the 37-38 minutes it took to get the information out that it was a false alarm was intentional.
Local News could have had the info out in minutes -- even if the *automatic* cell phone alert system was somehow unable to be used -- which is laughable.
Am I supposed to believe that when a Flash Flood or Tsunami warning is issued, it takes 38 minutes to send a cell phone alert because the system was used recently to send out another alert?
Just send an alert that says, "False Alarm."
If you want to believe the system was somehow critically unusable and going through some *manual* method would take 30 minutes or so...go ahead. I just can't do it.
We have to agree to disagree on this.
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Also, for anyone thinking the 37-38 minute gap was intentional, like me...I found the comments on the Hawaii Governor's FB page to be so interesting: David Ige
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ETA: I love the guy that left this comment to the governor: "I’m opening a lawsuit against you sir."
So much more polite than I would be.