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Monday, January 15, 2018

Land of Paradise ... and Whining

So you may have heard that Hawaii is the first state to do civil defense drills because of North Korea's misleading tests - after Pearl Harbor you can't really blame them, really, but still a bit of over-reaction if you ask me


Well they had a boo-boo this weekend ... well a FALSE ALARM actually.  


Saturday, 13January2018, the Civil Defense Core triggered the alarm system -- it hit the air waves, it hit the reverse 911 system, the testing system ... I have not heard if the sirens went off though 


Either way - the people in Hawaii were scared ... there was a soccer match which had to be emptied, people were honking horns and just pulling over on the roadways/freeways, there was even a story of a woman who found her mother and daughter crying in a garage.


People PANICKED and you can't blame them really ... Hawaii is not a state known for their swiftness ... they are laid back, even more than Seattle or Denver ...


It took them 15 minutes to get a retraction to the media but 1/2 hr for them to get it out on TEXT ... personally I would have thought texting would have been the first choice since it seems everyone has a cell phone now and they are usually close by.


Soooo ... BEFORE it was discovered what had caused the false alarm, the state representative went on national media and blamed the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT for not doing enough to prevent the system from being needed in the first place.


WHAT?!


She ((why does it seem that these fools seem to be women)) said President Trump should do whatever he needed to in order to make a peace deal with North Korea 


Wow ... over react much?


So what caused the problem?


HOURS later they finally released the cause ... there was a shift change and a worker accidentally PUSHED the BUTTON before leaving ... so they say it took a while before they realized what happened. 


Wait -- the button is that SENSITIVE???  It's on a TABLE TOP???  I suppose it could be on a computer but it only takes ONE KEY STROKE???


The story today (Monday 14Jan2018) is that they claim they had to WAIT for FEMA to give the okay to release the error message ...


Sound like Katrina??


Not President Trumps fault here ... not FEMAs fault either somehow I doubt that they have to wait for FEMA to say it's okay to draw back an alert - there may however be one which says they can not ISSUE an alert without word from FFEMA &/or NORAD (the national radar system - yes they look for more than just Santa Claus)


This reminds me so much of the Cuban Missile Crisis ... everyone panicked ... people pointed fingers ... stupid moves were made because people didn't think it through ... there were those who waned to throw the baby out with the bath water ... 


Then there was when Reagan was in office ... Hollywood released a BARRAGE of films that dealt with the effects of a nuclear war, the horrors which likely will follow, how horrible OUR missiles were while never touching on other nations ( exception, Spies Like Us" looked at USA & Russian capabilities) ...


The one closest o the situation is War Games starring Matthew Broderick ... a kid accidentally backdoors into a NORAD system (a super computer with AI) and nearly starts a nuclear war ... the point here being that he sets off a FALSE ALARM about NUCLEAR launches. (Although that was not the point of the movie at all)


First things first - let's make it so false alarms are LESS LIKEL to happen again (since there is no way to prevent them totally without a doubt). This was the reason that nukes couldn't be launched without 2 buttons being pressed at the same time.


Second - review the steps required for both the issuance/reminding of warnings ... if the NWS can figure this out, I'm pretty sure you all can too.


Third - get some representatives with GUTS in there ... you can't blame government for HUMAN ERROR -- that's unpredictable.  The Representative should have said simply " we are looking into what happened and we will work on a way to lessen the chance of this happening again" instead of jumping on the POLITICAL BANDWAGON ... this was NOT the time for it


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