Change of underwear needed for thousands in Hawaii

Yeah well I’ve watched every episode of 24 and I think we’d be okay.

All you have to do to survive a nuclear blast is hide in an old refrigerator. I'll have to ask @Dayton3 if that's right, though.

Hmm, okay. So if our typical onshore winds are in effect, the desert communities will get the fallout. If the Santa Anas are in play, I'm gone.

are you kidding me? Heading east out of southern California are nothing but thousands of miles of CONSERVATIVES until you reach I-95 and head north.
Her head would explode because she went outside her liberal bubble like a deep sea fish brought up to the surface - she didn't evolve outside her narrow range of conditions and thus couldn't survive.

Oh, you sad little man. I hope you're "joking." If you're serious, you're operating from a POV of profound ignorance.

Profound ignorance? Surely you jest. Liberals have set the bar. I couldn't get any lower if I tried - it would be an ever elusive goal in the race toward the deepest levels to which liberals have an obvious head start.

My state has one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, so I'm pretty sure we'd get nuked.

So I'm "all liberals" now?

The regressive left aren't liberal.

"The regressive left" is an oxymoron, perpetrated by morons. Do it again!

The regressive left is an accurate name for the ideology which is ever bit as regressive as their counterparts on the right.

Source?

Honestly, I'd take my chances with a nuke over a tsunami or a volcano.

But all things considered, I hope I'd go with the initial blast.

Why would we lose the internet or electricity just because LA gets wiped out?

And before you yell "EMP!!" for a large area effect that requires a nuclear detonation at extremely high altitude. Something on the order of 300,000 feet (60 miles) above the Earth's surface which would cause no blast or radiation damage to targets on the surface.

Shit, I thought chup was back for a moment there.

You'd have to be an idiot to believe this incident was the result of some stooge simply pressing the "wrong button."

So I expect 75% of Wordforge to have bought this explanation hook, line and sinker.

The benefit of this "mistake" was to highlight just how fragile our perceived sense of security is, how easily people will devolve into mindless panic, and how we really don't have any realistic defense against that kind of attack.

Yup, just hide under your bed, shove your kids into a storm drain, and wait to be vaporized. Whatever you do, stay calm and keep things neat and orderly as you await impending death.

So tell us what happened than?

And why hasn’t it been leaked to the public like everything else has been?

FTFY

I don't know.

But whatever did happen, I find it impossible to believe that someone could simply "press the wrong button" and send out an emergency notice that the island was under missile attack.

WWIII nearly broke out in the 80s over a computer glitch and there have been far too many near misses in the eighty years since nukes became a thing. So yeah, it's easy to believe someone is just that goddamn stupid.

I have no problem believing that someone could be that stupid.

Perhaps I'm being naive in thinking that the emergency alert system must have some kind of security protocol redundancies that would make it impossible to broadcast an attack alert just by "pressing a wrong button." It's that easy to make Hawaii believe they're about to go through Pearl Harbor 2: Nuclear Boogaloo?

Are we really dealing with Homer at his station in the power plant?

Oh I definitely believe it! Here's something to jog a few memories:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...0667de76985_story.html?utm_term=.2fcf50e9944a

I have no problem believing that someone was using the system and hit the wrong thing.

Could be something as simple as, "hey Jack. Look I'm about to tell the whole state we are going to die!" as a joke but then accidentally hits the activate button on the computer.

It isn't the first time false alarms have gone out, it was just amplified this time due to everyone carrying a communications device to instantly get the message.

Yep. Nailed it pretty close. Using the system and hit the wrong thing. Just the joke part wasn't accurate.

Next Hawaii should broadcast War of the Worlds.

Between the middle-of-the-night Amber Alerts (Um folks, I'm at home watching Netflix, not on the freeway, so I really can't help you find the late-model black Toyota you're looking for) and the fact that the FDLA sent a screaming ALERT!!!!! at 6:00 a.m. the morning the Bel Air fire broke out (even though I'm over five miles away), I've learned to put my phone on Silent overnight. If the nukes hit L.A., I'm gone. Don't need to freak out about it 30 minutes beforehand.

You can turn off Amber and Emergency alerts on your phone.

If on iPhone: go to settings, notifications, scroll all the way to the bottom. You will see both Amber and Emergency alert buttons. Turn them off.

Android depends on your phone but you can google it easy.

Yeah, turning off Amber Alterts is the first thing I do when I get a new phone.

Ditto. Besides, I know Amber, that bitch be cracra.