HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

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Postby Paradox » Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:09 pm

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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby hauolihaole » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:19 am

My parents both live on Maui. Apparently, neither one got the text to their phones so my mom thought it was all fake from the start. I was camping in the middle of nowhere, so I didn't even hear about it until a few days later. Pretty scary that my parents could have been dead for several days without me knowing! Quite a few people I know were pretty shaken up about it.
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby Paradox » Fri Jan 19, 2018 5:58 pm

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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby Lindvaettr » Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:25 pm

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I'm glad to know that the Hawaii Emergency Alert System is employing the best and the brightest developers to craft such exquisite examples of UI design.
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby RatElemental » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:02 am

The least they can do is format those links for christ's sake.

Or are they not using HTML and only using a GUI specifically designed to look like the laziest piece of shit HTML page you can possible create for funsies?
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby CarrieVS » Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:22 pm

The latest I've heard on this story is that it wasn't a case of accidentally clicking the wrong button at all.

BBC wrote:A midnight supervisor at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency decided to conduct a spontaneous drill during a shift transition. The incoming day supervisor was then said to be unaware the 08:05 drill would involve any incoming day officers, who were then not told about the exercise.
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The drill message, which was called in pretending to be from US Pacific Command, began and ended with the words: "Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!". But the warning also said "This is not a drill", in a script that the FCC say was different from established procedure.
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According to the federal report, the employee [who pressed the button] was one of three who received the call but did not hear the exercise warning. Believing it was real, they said they sent out the genuine alert out using the agency's software.


I'm not entirely clear how the guy is supposed to have not heard the warning, since it was part of the same call if I understand correctly, and repeated beginning and end in case he missed it once. Although whoever embellished the script pro'ly has a lot to answer for. But the guy apparently has form:

BBC wrote:A state report also released on Tuesday said the employee had a record of "poor performance" on the job.

Reports say he had been a source of concern for colleagues for 10 years, having confused emergency drills with real life incidents on at least two occasions.


He's been fired, and they're not going to let anyone do this again (alerts of this kind now need secondary approval), and have also been called out for doing too many surprise drills and never having developed any plan for dealing with a false alarm.
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby D-LOGAN » Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:32 pm

CarrieVS wrote:I'm not entirely clear how the guy is supposed to have not heard the warning, since it was part of the same call if I understand correctly, and repeated beginning and end in case he missed it once.


I'm guessing either by paying attention to something else or not paying attention at that particular moment.

It's a mistake I probably woulda made if I was in his shoes. I can see me doing that. Still better it happened to him than me.

Meh, he'll be fine though. I'm sure things will work back out for him eventually in some new job he's better suited to.
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby DamianaRaven » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:54 am

D-LOGAN wrote:It's a mistake I probably woulda made if I was in his shoes. I can see me doing that.


You mean, like that time you pulled the fire alarm? I wish I could say that wasn't funny but looking back, I can see how someone might have enjoyed the show.
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby iMURDAu » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:16 am

Surprise drills are another reason I could never be President.

Their frequency would result in a "crying wolf" scenario.
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Re: HAWAII IS DOOMED!!!!!

Postby RatElemental » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:20 am

iMURDAu wrote:Surprise drills are another reason I could never be President.

Their frequency would result in a "crying wolf" scenario.

D'you mean a 'Charlie Foxtrot'?
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