No wonder people are high-tailing it out of Hawaii with Democrats in charge of the state, like CA and NY – I would too, with brains full of saw dust.

SO WHAT WOULD  YOU EXPECT?  THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO NOT PUSH A BUTTON.

Democrats run Hawaii – the Governor is a Democrat, the Judges are Democrats, and the people vote Democrat.

This is how our country was run for eight years under Obama and his Demorats.

We had a FALSE ALARM FOR EIGHT YEARS.

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False missile alert spurs hysteria, panic in Hawaii

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) –
A false ballistic missile threat alert went out to all cell phones in Hawaii on Saturday morning, sending the state’s 1.4 million residents and hundreds of thousands of visitors into a state of panic for more than 30 minutes until emergency officials confirmed the message was sent in error.

After someone pushed the ‘wrong button,’ Hawaii is thrown into panic

Fear. Panic. And tears. For 38 minutes, Hawaii thought it was under attack

The cause of the false alarm? A state emergency management employee pushed the wrong button.

“I know firsthand that what happened today is totally unacceptable, and many in our community were deeply affected by this,” Gov. David Ige said, at a news conference at the Hawaii Emergency Management agency on Saturday afternoon.

“I’m sorry for that pain and confusion that anyone might have experienced. I, too, am very angry and disappointed that this happened.”

While city and military officials took to social media within 15 minutes to quell fears and say the message was sent by mistake, it took state emergency management — which sent out the message in the first place — 38 minutes to send out a “false alarm” alert to cell phones using the same mechanism that distributed the emergency warning in the first place.

Flights at Honolulu’s airport, meanwhile, were suspended for about 18 minutes.

“It’s totally unacceptable,” said U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “There was anxiety across the state and it was terrifying. There was a lot of unnecessary pain and anxiety. It’s important to have accountability at the state level and the emergency management level in terms of what exactly what went wrong.”

Seconds after the alert was issued, 911 dispatchers were swamped with calls.

Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard said dispatchers answered about 3,000 calls before the alert was canceled, while about 2,500 calls were dropped.

Police were also able to confirm the message was a false alarm within minutes, Ballard said, and patrol officers used bullhorns on their vehicles to alert neighborhoods.

Firefighters, meanwhile, allowed dozens of people to shelter in place at fire stations until they could get more information.

Ige and the head of Hawaii’s Emergency Management agency, Vern Miyagi, said the false alert was the result of human error — and boiled down to a state emergency management employee clicking the wrong message during a routine drill that happens three times a day during shift changes.

“We did make the determination that it was a false alarm. The alarm was sent out in error, and we know that the procedure in a shift change had been followed, and a human error sent out the false alarm,” Ige told Hawaii News Now.

“We then went through our process to correct that and send out a notification that the alert was in error.”

Miyagi added, “The wrong button was pushed. I deeply apologize for the trouble and heartbreak we caused today.”

The false alarm sent Hawaii residents and visitors into a panic, scrambling for any shelter they could find, from storm drains to bathtubs to basements.

And in the wake of the error, lawmakers and others reacted with anger, and ongoing questions about how the state responded in the minutes after the false alarm was triggered.

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