Every Siren in the State of Hawaii Went Off!!!

[orangecrush]

And no authorization was given for this.

WTF???

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

1. I thought that I heard that on the local news too. It wasn't just on cell phones, etc.

[TalenaGor]

4. my friend is there she said sirens we're going off all over the place

[BigmanPigman]

7. It never would have occurred to me to

go down storm drains and under manhole covers. I know what to do during earthquakes and wildfires but nukes and missiles...no way.

[orangecrush]

11. I would crawl up

my own...

[orangecrush]

9. sounds like sabotage

[SweetieD]

2. I thought people were saying that they just got texts, no sirens?

[orangecrush]

10. Sirens too

apparently.

[wasupaloopa]

3. I dont know if I would want to be warned that

I am about to be nuked in a couple of minutes

[orangecrush]

14. I would

contrary to popular belief, it is possible to survive if you are not in ground zero.

[Girard442]

30. Great. You could survive the blast and then die of radiation sickness or starve or freeze to death.

The people at ground zero would be the lucky ones.

[cilla4progress]

5. Russian

Hack

Call me crazy

[orangecrush]

8. Or Korean

[Pachamama]

32. Not Crazy....

I agree....

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. They said in the press conference that the military bases

were the ones who turned on the sirens after receiving the notice.

[orangecrush]

12. Doubtful

The military doesn't control civilian sirens, as far as I know.

I could be wrong.

[jalan48]

13. Psy-ops stuff.

[orangecrush]

15. possibly sabotage

and possibly nothing.

[CincyDem]

16. In Wailea Maui - no sirens here. Everything via text and then hotel security. n/t

[orangecrush]

18. Thank you!

so not everywhere was affected.

[brush]

17. I wonder if that was done accidentally on purpose?

Several generals have warned that war is coming, and with trump and Un both unstable, maybe they want to condition people for the inevitable.

That had to be scary.

[orangecrush]

19. Hard to say

I would guess extremely unlikely that this,was from our side.

[brush]

21. Oh it was from our side. That was announced earlier. It was said to be human error, someone...

allegedly pushed the wrong button.

I just wonder.

[msongs]

20. Our sirens did not go off that we could hear. Nt

[orangecrush]

25. apparently

this didn't happen everywhere.

Glad you are safe!

[Stardust1]

22. Someone

Testing the US response?

[orangecrush]

23. My thoughts

exactly.

[orangecrush]

24. it wasn't just "the wrong button"

they said there was an "are you sure" that had to be clicked as well.

Wonder how much one gets paid or blackmailed to do that?

[Lifelong Protester]

26. I'm worried.

[rickford66]

27. Sirens are audible/on or inaudible/off.

Going off doesn't make sense. As confusing as flammable and inflammable.

[MLAA]

28. Wonder if the warning system was hacked vs. accidentally pushing the wrong button

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. I thought I'd read that no sirens went off.

Just the phone alerts.

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. Interesting

I thought it only Text Alerts sent out.

[ThoughtCriminal]

33. Talk about bad user interface design

What'll happen?

[Renew Deal]

34. I bet this is a hacking incident

I doubt those systems are well protected

[Cha]

35. And, I slept through the whole damn

thing. Can't believe I didn't hear it. Got up about 9:amish.

I'm glad I did.. talked to peeps here today who were so worried.. tweeting loved ones goodbye

Also friends said.. it seems like it would have to be someone in authority who pushed the button. Not just anyone who worked there would have access.

[herding cats]

36. Im glad you missed the whole insanity.

It’s bad enough it happened, but I’m glad you were at least spared.

The things I’ve read today from the people who endured this fiasco has broken my heart! It’s good to know you were at least spared in all this, Cha.

[Cha]

38. Mahalo, herding! My son and

his wife slept through it, too, in another town.

So sorry for those who had to have those thoughts that.. this could be it.. cruel and unusual

[herding cats]

39. You were in the front of my thoughts when I learned about this incident today, Cha.

I didn’t see you commenting by the time it was debunked (which was mercifully before you woke today I now know!) and hoped you’d been spared any undue stress. I’m glad that was the case.

I’m relived you, and your loved ones were spared. I’m still angry anyone had to think it was possibly their last few moments on this earth. Which apparently close to a million people experienced! The official reason isn’t making much sense, either. I don’t know what the whole truth is, but it’s possibly not what we were all told at first considering the now conflicting reports.

Damn, we live in interesting times.

[Cha]

40. That's so kind and thoughtful

of you, herding cats.. I had no idea!

But, since I last posted to you.. I started thinking about what I would have thought and it might have gone something like this.. " the holy fuck is this?!!!" I would have thought of trump and his big damn stupid shithole, while scrambling to send messages of Love to my family here and on the Mainland.

I had a similar experience, though not as deadly, on 9/11/92 when Hurricane Iniki struck Kauai. We were all in my son's house.. I and 13 of his surfer friends and girlfriends. We were all laying on the floor by the threshold because that was suppose to be the safest place.

It felt and sounded like a speeding train was headed straight for us.. I blurted out a "I love you all!!".. and I got laughs! It felt like the best thing to say at that point in time. Luckily his house stayed intact even though we never knew if it was going to blow at any time.

25 years ago!

I hope we find out the truth of what exactly happened and why it went off.

Missile threat alert for Hawaii a false alarm; officials blame employee who pushed 'wrong button'

"BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL," the emergency alert read.

snip//

Ige also tweeted that he is meeting with top defense and emergency management officials from the state "to determine what caused this morning's false alarm and to prevent it from happening again."

More..
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/politics/hawaii-missile-threat-false-alarm/index.html

That would have been Awful to read!

[Laffy Kat]

37. This may be a really stupid question, but:

Could the Russians be behind all this?

[smirkymonkey]

41. Not as stupid as you think.

It's very possible.