I can’t imagine how I would react if I got this kind of warning on my cell phone:
https://twitter.com/jetpack/status/952251646884614144Thank goodness this was a false alarm and Hawaii sent message that they can stand down!!
— SnoozyQ (@1SnoozyQ) January 13, 2018
But seriously... this is now our world... pic.twitter.com/k6QEUpgLKU
But it was a false alarm.
Here’s Pacific Command:
U.S. Pacific Command has detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii. Earlier message was sent in error. State of Hawaii will send out a correction message as soon possible. pic.twitter.com/hqidbV0BWn
— U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (@INDOPACOM) January 13, 2018
CNN is saying it was just a test.
It took more than half an hour to figure it out:
LOOK AT THIS STUPID LONG GAP BETWEEN "Hey nuclear missile incoming" vs "Sorry we screwed up." @Hawaii_EMA pic.twitter.com/RaB3Sz5tbU
— Gene Park (@GenePark) January 13, 2018
Good job guys.
BREAKING NEWS: Hawaii emergency officials say ballistic missile threat alert was a mistake https://t.co/qJu9Jmyz66 pic.twitter.com/1dqb8SQ063
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 13, 2018
Here’s another news report on it:
UPDATE:
Here’s how it felt to get the alarm in Hawaii:
CNN producer @lorenzaCNN describes receiving the false alarm in Hawaii: “We got alerts on our phone… we opened our sliding glass door to look out onto the beach, we saw probably 10 different families running, not walking, running back to their room.” https://t.co/iBTS3gVX0y pic.twitter.com/Xhi5W70Mx6
— CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2018
UPDATE 2:
Holy moly the alarm went out on television too!!!
LISTEN: The emergency alert pushed to cell phones in Hawaii — now confirmed as a false alarm — was also broadcast on television in the state https://t.co/h9HME2oEsG pic.twitter.com/G3Ly18Ozun
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 13, 2018
Someone is in big trouble.
UPDATE 3:
Duhhh someone pressed the wrong button?!
JUST IN: Hawaii Governor David Ige tells CNN that someone "pushed the wrong button" during an employee shift change, sending out the false alert about an incoming ballistic missile https://t.co/FD1vl6fCzh pic.twitter.com/2zhXLApLcr
— CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2018
That’s it?! That’s how it happened?