Earlier this calendar month , the land of Hawaii derive into a legal brief if existentially terrifying affright as its Emergency Management Agency bump off a aggregative text message warning of animminent “ BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT”after an employee constrict the wrong button . Many residents instantly scrambled for book binding from what they believed was an inward atomic projectile from North Korea .
The country did not distinguish itself sending out corrections , either , taking the good part of an hr to institutionalise out another mass text confirming no such missile existed . Although older body politic official were immediately alerted of the error , it take 17 minutes for Gov. David Ige to send his own tweet telling people to calm down . allot to theHonolulu Star Advertiser , that ’s in part because he was coordinating with emergency officials and in part because he forgot his Twitter password .
There is NO missile threat.https://t.co/qR2MlYAYxL
— Office of the Governor , State of Hawai`i ( @GovHawaii)January 13 , 2018
Yes , that ’s right-hand , as Hawaiians were awaiting potential atomic annihilation , Ige was fumbling around trying to lumber into Twitter :
Ige was require about that wait when he met with newsman after his State of the State speech today , and he state that “ I was in the process of spend a penny shout to the leadership squad both in Hawaii Emergency Management as well as others . ”
Ige summate that “ I have to confess that I do n’t know my Twitter story log - ons and the passwords , so certainly that ’s one of the changes that I ’ve made . I ’ve been putting that on my earpiece so that we can get at the social media directly . ”
It ’s good to roll in the hay that we ’re all really fain for atomic state of war .
As noted in theNew York Times , while officials are in worldwide understanding the false alert was impossible , they say alteration are in the work to prevent any possible do - overs — which is good , because relying on Twitter to reassure the world they ’re not about to face up Armageddon does n’t seem to have gone particularly well .
[ Honolulu Star Advertiser ]
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