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Maui-diver · 01-13-2018, 01:55 PM

So I got a call from my best friend this morning and he was freaking out from a Emergency alert coming through his iPhone and all TV’s saying there is an incoming ballistic missile and to seek shelter. Really!!! This went out on everyone’s phones and TV’s saying it was not a drill. Come to find out 10 minutes later apparently sombody got some buttons confused. Man, how do Yo Mess this one up? Crazy!!

txwhitetail · 01-13-2018, 02:00 PM

There were probably plenty of idiots going on about their day.

91cavgt · 01-13-2018, 02:56 PM

This alert was sent to every cell phone in the area. It sounds like more of a test to see how people will react and how to help better prepare for the real thing in the future.

Outbreaker · 01-13-2018, 03:02 PM

You are seriously asking how Government messed something up???????

I am seriously amazed when they get anything right.

dustoffer · 01-13-2018, 03:04 PM

Come on guys--it was on farce-book.

Outbreaker · 01-13-2018, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by dustoffer

Come on guys--it was on farce-book.

Some of us do not do that.

lost cajun · 01-13-2018, 03:18 PM

My friend was there. She said they all were taking shelter until they got word that it was a mix up.

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Native Texan · 01-13-2018, 03:25 PM

Media will spin this into something to blame Trump.

Lee230 · 01-13-2018, 04:55 PM

My BIL and SIL are at our place in Maui and he sent a text of an empty Kaanapali Beach this morning. They figured there was no where safe, so they just made a drink and waited for the fireworks!! Thankfully nothing to see.

Acameron52 · 01-13-2018, 05:06 PM

Y’all about a pucker factor!

Maui-diver · 01-13-2018, 05:09 PM

Took 38 minutes until it was canceled. My buddy said people were opening manholes and throwing their children in them. Man, that would suck.

BigThicketBoy · 01-13-2018, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by txwhitetail

There were probably plenty of idiots going on about their day.

Really not much to do but put your head between your legs and kiss you booty goodbye.

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DarrellS · 01-13-2018, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee230

My BIL and SIL are at our place in Maui and he sent a text of an empty Kaanapali Beach this morning. They figured there was no where safe, so they just made a drink and waited for the fireworks!! Thankfully nothing to see.

Really all you can do unless you have a bomb shelter. I like their style.

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dustoffer · 01-13-2018, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Outbreaker

Some of us do not do that.

I know that---but anything that originates on any social media site---to include the green screen, is automatically suspect until confirmed. Too many nut-cases out there that like to jerk folks around with junk like this.

Charles · 01-13-2018, 05:27 PM

Would "take cover" really be beneficial if a ballistic missile was headed your way?

doghouse · 01-13-2018, 05:34 PM

No telling what was going on behind the scenes. Could have been a computer hack or something like that.

91cavgt · 01-13-2018, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BigThicketBoy

Really not much to do but put your head between your legs and kiss you booty goodbye.

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Not really. The nukes we dropped in Japan had a 100% death area of only 1 mile. My mom was freaking out about this stuff till I reminded her that we tested 14 nukes just a couple hundred miles away from where she was born in ‘55(the year she was born).

41Chevy · 01-13-2018, 06:40 PM

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Not really. The nukes we dropped in Japan had a 100% death area of only 1 mile. My mom was freaking out about this stuff till I reminded her that we tested 14 nukes just a couple hundred miles away from where she was born in ‘55(the year she was born).

My Father told me stories about nuke parties in Vegas watching the sky light up.

systemnt · 01-13-2018, 06:51 PM

I would hope the official alerting system to such an event would consist of more than a notification to a cell phone that says "Seek Shelter"
(*Im giving benefit of a doubt that the alert was actually sent to cell phone carriers to push to all phones, and NOT just a notification to Facebook...)

maybe something along the lines of .."get the **** off the beach and underground.. .......psst dont tell Obama."

Tbar · 01-13-2018, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by doghouse

No telling what was going on behind the scenes. Could have been a computer hack or something like that.

That is what I was thinking.

doghouse · 01-13-2018, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tbar

That is what I was thinking.

Government will never reveal it! JMO!

d1rich1 · 01-13-2018, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by doghouse

Government will never reveal it! JMO!

Of course

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Sideler · 01-13-2018, 07:44 PM

I bet the guy who pushed the button has a side job building bunkers.

TeamAmerica · 01-13-2018, 08:07 PM

Probably selling a lot of new underwear in Hawaii today! Someone is getting fired...

Tommyh · 01-13-2018, 09:03 PM

Probably just a flock of birds. Dont worry about it

Bassdeer · 01-13-2018, 09:50 PM

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Really not much to do but put your head between your legs and kiss you booty goodbye.

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This^^^ Better to go out in a Nuke blast then a slow death in a nursing home.

Dad's been there and it sucked.

01-13-2018, 01:55 PM	#1
Maui-diver Ten Point Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Austin Texas Hunt In: lampasas	Maui had a false Missle alert this morning. So I got a call from my best friend this morning and he was freaking out from a Emergency alert coming through his iPhone and all TV’s saying there is an incoming ballistic missile and to seek shelter. Really!!! This went out on everyone’s phones and TV’s saying it was not a drill. Come to find out 10 minutes later apparently sombody got some buttons confused. Man, how do Yo Mess this one up? Crazy!! Attached Images Last edited by Maui-diver; 01-13-2018 at 02:06 PM.

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01-13-2018, 02:00 PM	#2
txwhitetail Pope & Young Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: San Angelo Hunt In: Irion Co	There were probably plenty of idiots going on about their day.

01-13-2018, 02:56 PM	#3
91cavgt Ten Point Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Waco	This alert was sent to every cell phone in the area. It sounds like more of a test to see how people will react and how to help better prepare for the real thing in the future.

01-13-2018, 03:02 PM	#4
Outbreaker Ten Point Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Houston	You are seriously asking how Government messed something up??????? I am seriously amazed when they get anything right.

01-13-2018, 03:04 PM	#5
dustoffer Pope & Young Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Seguin, Tx Hunt In: S/Central Tx	Come on guys--it was on farce-book.

01-13-2018, 03:18 PM	#7
lost cajun Eight Point Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Wylie, Tx. Hunt In: Navarro County, Mississippi, South Louisiana	My friend was there. She said they all were taking shelter until they got word that it was a mix up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

01-13-2018, 03:25 PM	#8
Native Texan Eight Point Join Date: May 2017 Location: The Great State of Texas Hunt In: Polk County	Media will spin this into something to blame Trump.

01-13-2018, 04:55 PM	#9
Lee230 Eight Point Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Georgetown Hunt In: Menard County, TX & OK Panhandle	My BIL and SIL are at our place in Maui and he sent a text of an empty Kaanapali Beach this morning. They figured there was no where safe, so they just made a drink and waited for the fireworks!! Thankfully nothing to see.

01-13-2018, 05:06 PM	#10
Acameron52 Ten Point Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Lewisville Hunt In: Coleman	Y’all about a pucker factor!

01-13-2018, 05:09 PM	#11
Maui-diver Ten Point Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Austin Texas Hunt In: lampasas	Took 38 minutes until it was canceled. My buddy said people were opening manholes and throwing their children in them. Man, that would suck.

01-13-2018, 05:27 PM	#15
Charles Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006	Would "take cover" really be beneficial if a ballistic missile was headed your way?

01-13-2018, 05:34 PM	#16
doghouse Pope & Young Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Goldthwaite Hunt In: Mills County	No telling what was going on behind the scenes. Could have been a computer hack or something like that.

01-13-2018, 06:51 PM	#19
systemnt Pope & Young Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Montgomery Hunt In: South Texas	I would hope the official alerting system to such an event would consist of more than a notification to a cell phone that says "Seek Shelter" (Im giving benefit of a doubt that the alert was actually sent to cell phone carriers to push to all phones, and NOT just a notification to Facebook...) maybe something along the lines of .."get the *** off the beach and underground.. .......psst dont tell Obama."

01-13-2018, 07:44 PM	#23
Sideler Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Antonio	I bet the guy who pushed the button has a side job building bunkers.

01-13-2018, 08:07 PM	#24
TeamAmerica Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Dallas Hunt In: Corsicana (Navarro County)	Probably selling a lot of new underwear in Hawaii today! Someone is getting fired...

01-13-2018, 09:03 PM	#25
Tommyh Pope & Young Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Katy	Probably just a flock of birds. Dont worry about it