The more I think about this Hawaii mess, the more it pisses me off, and I'm surprised there isn't a higher level of outrage about it.
This was a government bedshit of the highest order. Hawaiians (and people visiting Hawaii) were left to twist in the wind for 38 minutes, believing they were going to die.
Read these texts displayed on CNN tonight from those 38 minutes:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/us/tex...rnd/index.html
Heartbreaking, even though no one was hurt. (Did anyone perhaps die of a heart attack from this? I'd believe it.)
Allowing this to happen in the first place is bad enough, but how do 38 minutes pass without this being corrected? That is beyond criminal negligence. Whoever blew this one -- especially the follow-up -- should spend time in prison.
I've thought about what I would have done if I were vacationing in Hawaii when this happened. All three of my visits there have been in the winter or early spring -- one in December, one in early March, one in early April -- so this was definitely the time of year I could have been there.
Had I received such a message, I would have believed it was possible, especially given the recent issues we've had with North Korea.
I would have assumed there was a good chance that my family was going to die there. I would have wondered what to tell Benjamin. Would I have told him that he might die within a few hours? Try to maintain fake calmness in case this turns out to be a false alarm or a prank? Probably the latter... but what an awful situation to be in.
This would be bad enough to have to deal with for a time period like 3 minutes, but 38 minutes is horrendous.
But it looks like we're just getting an "lol oops, wrong button" from Hawaiian officials, and nobody is going to get in trouble for this, nor are we going to learn why it took 38 minutes to correct.
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
The more I think about this Hawaii mess, the more it pisses me off, and I'm surprised there isn't a higher level of outrage about it.
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