Poetslife

The purpose of Poetslife is to promote the art and discipline of American Tactical Civil Defense for families and small businesses and to contribute practical American civil defense preparedness guidance for all Americans through my articles in the The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) Journal of Civil Defense and leadership as the volunteer Vice President of TACDA.

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5/19/2023

Civil Defense Family Security Life Hacks

Ever since I discovered the wonder of Civil Defense at 27 in doing contract work inspecting Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) on Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) all over the United States and teaching emergency managers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, I have been fascinated by how critical it is to this nation's survival. (More here.)

Just before that, I practiced Civil Defense the United States Air Force without knowing it as an additional duty helping the disabled service members and veterans vacate the Eglin Air Force Base hospital during monthly hurricane exercises in the early 1980's,

(For more background, please see my bio at The American Civil Defense website where I am the volunteer Vice President https://tacda.org/about/#board.)

I believe deeply in American Civil Defense because I have been involved in it professionally and as a volunteer for 40 years.

Despite being seen as a throwback to a Cold War era with little contemporary use, civil defense is alive and well, especially among the elite who take it very seriously.

I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge I would like to share with other Americans, especially Moms, Dads, Grand Moms, Grand Dads, and small business owners.

Why them?

Well, for the last 3 years I have handed out over 5,000 civil defense business cards with contact information for how to prepare for natural and manmade disasters and parents and small business owners have been the most receptive, even grateful.

Given the high rate of heart attacks, blood clots, and other medical complications that have resulted from the medical experiments since we were attacked 3 years ago by the Communist Chinese Party bioweapon, hopefully you realize your health and survival are your responsibility.

If the Bible teaches us anything, it is to be prepared for this life…and the next.

Here, I will concentrate on being prepared for this life.

I would like to help you meet that responsibility for yourself and your family, friends, neighbors, and nation.

I will post Civil Defense Hacks to make the year more fruitful, productive, interesting, loving, disciplined, virtuous, good, holy, and beautiful.

I share my civil defense knowledge, plans, practices, and tips in the Civil Defense Hacks below.

Please join me.

CIVIL DEFENSE LIFE HACK #1: MATERIAL PREPARATION IS THE EASIEST PART OF CIVIL DEFENSE

When I was interviewed on Civil Defense Radio several years ago, I was asked what the difference was between FEMA, Preppers, and Civil Defense.

My answer was this: FEMA shows up a month after a natural and manmade disasters and writes you a check eventually...if you qualify.

Preppers, God love 'em because they are trying, concentrate too much on the materialistic and solitary, when it is through strategy, plans, friends, family, and neighbors you survive.

Civil defense, in contrast, is as old as the Bible and had survived the test of time and the prepares you to not just survive, but to triumph over natural and manmade disasters.

Material preparations for disasters is important, but it is the easiest part of the plan.

Here is a link to tested, verified, and practical items to prepare you and your family for such events.

I especially recommend purchasing WaterBricks (clean water is THE essential to survival), Waterproof USB drives (data preservation is critical to your family and business), and the Go Dark Bag (because there are tyrants with bad intent, sadly.)

https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/

#business #data #love #strategy #events #water #civildefense #waterbricks #water #fema #preppers #prepare #smallbusiness #family #familybusiness #civil #tacda

CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #3: IT'S ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S FUTURE

https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html

Now a grandfather, I think in terms of generations and centuries, not just years or decades.

I am planting trees from which I will never enjoy the fruit, but I am happy to do so to benefit my progeny.

Nothing is more important for our future generations than teaching children civil defense. The rugby player is is my wee one in the photos.

He is gifted in music, engineering, athletics, and many other areas, but if he does not know how to survive, the rest does not happen.

After years of teaching him the importance of survival skills, he knows how to survive.

Many times, he now teaches me new skills.

I could leave the earth today and be confident he will survive and survive well.

Just yesterday I went over my last will and testament with him and given his reaction I am confident he is a highly skilled, intelligent, mature, loving, giving, Christian man who knows the facts of life.

In the link above to my blog post, you can discover ways you can be sure your children and grandchildren will survive...and PROSPER because they know how to survive.

You can also read my article Children and Civil Defense in the TACDA.ORG Journal of Civil Defense 

 https://tacda.org/journal/journal-of-civil-defense-2018-vol-51-no-1-emergency-water-storage/

I worked many months to make the TACDA.ORG search engine optimization terms relevant, so please explore other civil defense topics in the Journal of Civil Defense's illustrious 65-year history of knowledge based articles while you are there.

https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html

#future #engineering #music #civil #teaching #children #childrensfure #love #family #survival #survivalskills

CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #4: MACRO CYBERSECURITY

https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-state-hackers-take-aim-at-power.html

As with micro and macro economics, there is micro and macro cybersecurity.
Think of whatever you put your hands on for personal communication as micro cybersecurity.
Think of all the systems you depend on to make sure those personal computers and phones depend on as macro cybersecurity.
Here we are concerned with macro cybersecurity, or who watches the watchers.
Most Americans don't realize that right now a disciplined People's Liberation Army Lt. Colonel under the direction of a Communist Chinese Party (CCP) commissar actively owns, or is seeking, details on their DNA, emotional IQ, habits, weaknesses, and thinking.
That Lt. Colonel is working with creative Chinese criminal hackers who were given the choice of death or helping the CCP to dominate the world.
Despite the years of CCP data breaches of local, state, and federal government data centers and the exfiltration of that data to the CCP, and the parallel pirating of private sector data to CCP data servers, Americans generally are oblivious to the threat.
As proof, tens of millions of Americans freely and enthusiastically send terabytes of their personal data to the CCP via TikTok every day.
That will change soon.
Once Russia conquers the territory it wants soon, the world will change and this hidden war will become more visible.
Data breaches against the West, and especially the United States, that could have only been imagined in the past, will become reality.
I do not want this to happen, but after much research it looks like it will happen.
Civil defense is about thinking about the impossible and improbable and gaming it out just in case.
Still, it is not all bleak.
There are professionals who work 24/7/365 to countermand this CCP/Russian/North Korean/Iranian stealth digital plan to take down the American system.
I include links with a brief introduction to those government and private sector actors who are responsible for protecting our safety and security.
If you doubt me, recall that "someone" just took down our Air Traffic Control system...nationwide.
It is one more reminder of how vulnerable we are in our advanced, electricity based civilization.
I wrote https://lnkd.in/eDkHniiH in 2017.
You can also read my piece in the The American Civil Defense Association Journal of Civil Defense.
https://lnkd.in/eg88CGSi

Has anything improved since then?
Not really, so I pray every day that Americans wake up in time, aware that John F. Kennedys great book Why England Slept is now Why America Slept as we now, like England then, is mostly asleep.

#cybersecurity #people #work #data #digital #research #security #cloud #communication #insurance #safety #creative #mortgage #medical #banking #gaming #civil #electricity #iphone #change #macroeconomics

CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #5: MAKE A BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN

https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2016/09/business-continuity-disaster-recovery.html

Very large insurance and other corporations have detailed business continuity plans.
Why?
To survive if a manmade or natural disaster strikes suddenly.
But small businesses need such a plan even more.
If you run a business as a plumber, HVAC, electrician, small store owner, painter, mechanic, etc., you need a business continuity plan.
I attach a link to a continuity of business plan on my civil defense blog you can use to complete to help make sure your business survives a major dislocation.
Use what is useful in this plan and disregard the rest.
One tip is that businesses now go out of business not from the flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, riot, etc....but due to data loss.
So, back up your data...daily.
We have a simple waterproof, EMP hardened, USB drive you can purchase at the TACDA.ORG survival store.
In addition to backing up your data, these USB drives have our disaster coursework so you can learn how to deal with all the threats on the threat matrix.
The time is growing late to get started on this plan, so please start on it now.
#help #business #smallbusiness #data #event #insurance #hvac #civil #corporations #corporations #insurance #continuity
https://lnkd.in/eUzYSrw3

CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #6: ALWAYS PREPARE IN ADVANCE

https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html

Consider how you prepare for a newborn baby.
Take that enthusiasm to your preparation for natural and manmade disasters.
To illustrate the point, years ago I prepared an emergency management plan for the Town of Mount Airy, MD where I lived at the time.
It was a comprehensive plan but, most importantly, it included a memorandum of understanding (MOA).
These are agreements signed in advance of an event.
They enable the rapid marshalling of the services, people, and resources needed immediately after a manmade or natural disaster strikes.
In hack #7, I will show how this memorandum of understanding, when activated after a tornado hit Mount Airy, MD, helped make the recovery faster and easier.
#people #civil #event #emergencymanagement #memorandumofunderstanding

CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #7: EF1 TORNADO LESSONS

https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/11/ef-1-tornado-lessons-from-mt-airy-md.html

NOTE: I use a tornado example here, but these tips apply to the whole threat matrix.

With a Memorandum of Understanding (MOA)in place with Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware, a rubble removal company, and others, the recovery from this tornado in Mount Airy, MD, because this simple task was done in advance, the town returned to operation quickly.
As with all natural disaster planning, the fundamentals must be repeated.
1.  Learn IN ADVANCE what you must do to prepare to save yourself, your family, your pets, and your neighbors when disaster strikes.
2. Stockpile, within reason, items you will need to survive ( water, food, medical, electronic, etc.).
3.  Exercise for an event.  Make if fun with children . This is vital. You will discover holes in your plan, supplies, contacts, etc. you will need to fill.
Here are natural disaster lessons explored in greater detail in the link below.
1. The Media Only Reports Part of the Story
2. Dishonest Contractors will Always Show up Post Disaster.
3. Your Insurance Only Covers Part of the Cost
4. Drones are the Future of Planning for and Recovering from Natural and Man-Made Disasters
5. Have a Damage Survey Form Template Ready
7. Good Government Governance and Communication Tools are Critical
8. Neighbors Must Help Neighbors
#future #help #communication #food #insurance #contractors #media #medical #water #civil #hardware #civildefense #event #planning

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2/27/2022

Hawaii Ballistic Missile Alert Fail and Fix

The primary threat to the American people's Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the people they own in the United States.

Our dependence on the CCP is costing us money, our freedom, our American civilization's and our children and grandchildren's future. Fortunately, American manufactures are leaving Red China like rats off a sinking ship. So are many other nations' manufacturers.

I analyze the CCP threat below using the accidental 2018 inbound ballistic missile threat.

Note: Every primary natural or manmade disaster has a secondary threat. You can find out about secondary's here and here.

Given the reality of the possibility of nuclear war due to:
  1. Red China seeking to pretend they do not have a failing economy by attacking Taiwan as a diversion and to control Taiwan's resources, especially computer chips
  2. Failed Dystopian leadership from Washington, DC that is of Biblical scope of destruction on the world stage
  3. Bad actors like Russia, Iran, North Korea about to exploit the failed leadership in Washington, DC
  4. The always present threat of human error and miscalculation and the Law of Unintended Consequences that surrounds the possibility of nuclear war
We all need to prepare for the possibility of nuclear war. 
Go to TACDA.ORG for multiple resources to prepare.

Here is a case study of why we need to prepare for nuclear war.

The state of Hawaii was as unprepared for the nuclear war on Saturday, January 13, 1918 as they were for the Imperial Japanese attack of 1941.

We need to gain a deeper understanding of what happened the day over a million Hawaiians were horrified to discover their state emergency operations center falsely informed them a ballistic missile strike was imminent.
The bad news is that with the mega failure of the the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) one employee broadcast of an incoming ballistic missile on January 13, 2018 we suffered a catastrophic failure in our national security.
A good summary of this event can be found here and here.
For an excellent analysis of the technical issues of the false alert, see Here's how Hawii's emergency alert design led to a false alarm on The Verge.
Serious software and hardware design issues also contributed to this disaster. Scott Robertson has an outstanding human-centered design (HCI) article for how to fix that part here.
For what an actual ballistic missile strike on Hawaii would look like, see here.
The GOOD NEWS is that there is a simple fix: ONLY HIRE COMPETENT EMPLOYEES TO DO THAT JOB.
For the Congressional Research Service analysis of the false alert, see here.

You Can Survive a Nuclear Ballistic Missile Strike

What if the false incoming ballistic missile warning in Hawaii had been real? 
As long as North Korea, Red China, Russia, Iran and other nations have missiles, the reality is they could be fired at Hawaii or the continental United States at any time...with 20 minutes warning. 
We survived the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the jihadi 9/11 attack because we're Americans.
We can survive a nuclear hit and the fallout.
There are so many things you can do to to increase your, and your family's, chances of survival. 
The Provident Prepper provides an excellent guide to just how many common sense steps there are.
Here, I will only list the top four steps (and a bonus step if you have the resources) to surviving a nuclear strike.

 Water: Store a years supply of fresh water in Waterbricks. 
A daily clean water water is absolutely essential to life. 
Often people store water in milk jugs that are contaminated or thin water bottles. Both are inadequate for long term storage. Use Waterbricks, 1011 Crown Park Circle, Suite 100, Winter Garden, FL, 877 420 https://www.waterbrick.org/shop/
Food: Store a years supply of packaged food to which you only need to add water to have a nutritious meal. One good source is MyPatriotSupply, PatriotPantry.com in Muncie, IN, 866 229 0927.
Military Grade Medical Kit: You will need to be able to attend to the medical needs of yourself and your family. A military-grade medical kit like those at North American  Rescue are essential. All their products are first rate, but the Combat Activation Tourniquet (CAT) is combat proven and will stop bleeding to preserve a body before it bleeds out. To any father's reading this, save a life. Get a few CAT's for your car and home.
https://www.narescue.com/military-products/casualty-response-kits
Anti-Radiation Tablets: K103 Anti-Radiation Tablets to block radiation fallout absorption by your body, and especially the thyroid. Fake anti-radiation tables were sold to many in California after the Fukushima disaster. Only order the real ones here: K103-USA.com, 800 537 1339,, Medical Corps, 410 Front Street, #3, OH 45750.
Here is an excellent description from the K103 website about the importance of REAL K103.

"If there is a nuclear event, and you are down-wind, you need to take KIO3 or KI before the radioactive plume reaches you. If you do not have KIO3 or KI at the time of the event, then it is most likely too late to take a thyroid blocker unless the authorities can reach you with the proper dose during fallout conditions. Both KIO3 and KI are thyroid blockers and are used world-wide to help prevent radioactive damage to the thyroid in the event of a nuclear incident. If a nuclear bomb detonates or a nuclear power plant is compromised or has a melt-down, then radioactive iodine is always released into the air and environment. 
Radioactive Iodine (I-131) can destroy the thyroid of humans and animals. Even small amounts of I-131 can cause cancer of the thyroid. By taking KIO3 the thyroid becomes saturated with "good iodine" and cannot absorb the "bad iodine" I-131. 
Yes, animals or pets can take KIO3 too."

Underground Shelter:  You can build your own. Or, for those with the resources, use a company, that has done it for years whose owners are experts on nuclear radiation fallout. 
Even if you can afford them, beware of the companies who have been building luxury shelters for billionaires and millionaires lately.
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Civil Defense Redux

Study history. Civil defense has been critical from the beginning of time. If you don't prepare, protect, defend and practice, you don't last long.
For most people in this nation when you mention civil defense, they think of the "duck and cover" training from their childhood.
Civil defense is far more than that.  
To get a good understanding of civil defense issues, see Michael Mabee here and here.
For a quick review, see my 2005 Civil Defense Redux post here.
Here is one important quote from that article:
"Disasters happen, and taking steps to be prepared is common sense.
Fires, floods, earthquakes, windstorms, power outages, and now terrorist attacks happen. It's a story as old as the Bible. 
Do you and your family and neighbors a favor and make sure you are prepared. Even if it never happens, it's like insurance. 
You never know you need it until you need it and then it is too late to get it. Mitigate and smile."
Sadly, there is nothing to smile about with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency incoming ballistic missile attack.
It never should have happened.
It did not need to happen.
It must never happen again.
As there were no initial reports of panic other than the father who stuffed his children into a sewer manhole in a video that went viral that day, I first wrote "That there was not mass panic, mayhem and accidental injury and death is a miracle." Update: There was.

The Real Cause of the Hawaii False Nuclear Alert

Like other state and local Emergency Operations Centers (EOC's), the people working there are often not hired due to their aptitude, skills and experience in the field of civil defense. 
Rather, they know someone, usually a politician, who appoints them to the position as a favor.
How do I know this?
In the 1980's I visited multiple EOC's in numerous American states. In places like North Dakota, Florida, California, Florida and Georgia, they were extremely professional operations run by true professionals. Managers and line employees all had decades of experience in emergency management, civil defense, and disaster preparedness.
Then there were the others. 
It was obvious to me when interacting with them that they were appointed by politicians and did not earn their position. 
Their work ethic was nonexistent. 
This was a problem then and it is a problem now.
Proof? 
The employee who pushed the wrong button refuses as of 1/27/2018 to cooperate with the FCC investigation and STILL has a job.
"We are disappointed however that one key employee, the person who transmitted the false alert is refusing to cooperate with our investigation," said Lisa Fowlkes, bureau chief of the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. "We hope that person will reconsider."
I also taught at the Emergency Management Institute. There, the students who came in from all over the country were first rate, mostly because they were first responders.
But attending those classes there were also the multiple incompetents who had been appointed by politicians.
Now I live in Carroll County, MD and am blessed with an EOC filled with competent, experienced, dedicated professionals. 
(For more information, see here.)

Tragically, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency did not have competent people on site that day.
The proof is that this false alarm went out at all.
What has been revealed since reinforces the point.

1.  One person alone was able to send out the alert that caused panic state-wide. There was no second check on the alert message being sent. There is a reason the U.S. Air Force always has TWO officers with the key to launch thermonuclear weapons in missile silos and BOTH have to agree and act in concert. So, the most basic two-tiered decision process was not in place.

2.  The alert was sent to many...but not all who needed to receive it. This indicates to me that HEMA did not prepare thoroughly in years past to create a comprehensive list of ALL who needed to be notified. Make a comprehensive list NOW.

3. Those who make HUGE life and death decisions MUST KNOW THEIR PASSWORDS. The Hawaii Governor, the decision maker responsible to immediately reach all the panicked Hawaiian citizens that the alert was false, did not know his password. 
So, what could have been corrected in seconds or a few minutes took 38 minutes. I kid you not.
"But one Twitter account was deafeningly silent for 17 minutes: that of Hawaii Gov. David Ige. Though Ige was informed by the state’s adjutant general that the alert was false two minutes after it was sent, he waited until 8:24 a.m. to tweet, “There is NO missile threat. 
On Monday, after he gave the State of the State address in which he avoided the subject of the missile alert fiasco, reporters demanded an explanation for that long silence. Ige’s answer: He couldn’t log in to Twitter. “I have to confess that I don’t know my Twitter account log-ons and the passwords, so certainly that’s one of the changes that I’ve made,” Ige said." (The Washington Post, Travis Andrews, 1/23/2018.
Here's the reality. Ever since Sully's U.S. Airways Flight 1549 went down on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009 and a guy on Twitter sent out a photo of the plane with passengers hanging onto the wings a half hour before the New York media, people search Twitter for clues in a crisis. Anyone involved in emergency management or civil defense, and especially a governor, must be able to communicate immediately using Twitter. Forgetting your Twitter password is not an excuse. It is a a firing offense.
Immediately after the event when reporters visited the HEMA they discovered yellow Post-It notes on employee computers with the ID and Password in open site. That is such a fundamental security fail. North Korean or Chinese hackers, and even your run-of-the-mill basement dwelling black hat hackers could have used those IDs and passwords to compromise the system. Worse, the HEMA system connects to Pacific Command and other systems that, and other local, state, national and international secure systems could be compromised.

The Government Self Reviews

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other governmental agencies are reviewing what happened at the HEMA.
That's good, but limited.
No doubt they will identify the systemic failures and recommend changes. Some of those changes will happen. But, based on my prior experience, I am not confident that the most important change, the firing of the incompetent employees and replacing them with professional and competent employees, will happen.
And the Federal Communications Commission and Congress are investigating. What will really change in Hawaii's EOC and the other EOC's?
Having read the Presidential 911 Report and remembering how most recommendations to correct that disaster were ignored, I'm not hopeful
The Governor of Hawaii, the same person who employed the incompetent employee who caused this mega national security failure, assures us that this will never happen again. 
Not having examined the breathtaking failures that let to this event, he has no facts on which to base a statement like that.
For starters, Governor, redesign your control panel. Here is an outstanding analysis of the problem with your current "Alert Button."
Implement this fix (along with hiring competent employees, instituting a  two-tier emergency alert alert process, thorough and vigorous training and so forth) you are well on your way to ensuring that this never happens again.
And for a good primer on civil defense and how it is critical to your family, see here.

We Can Do Better

Here is a link to a worthwhile civil defense primer to help prevent this kind of tragedy in the future. 
The United States has been blessed to not have a real test of its civil defense capability on the scale of incoming ballistic missiles. 
In that sense, this Hawaii false alarm can be a catalyst to take action BEFORE it is too late.
I have been involved in civil defense for 40 years, the past 15 on this Poetslife blog. Here are links on this Poetslife blog on various aspects of civil defense that offer policy, practical photo, and procedures to create robust civil defense options for all the threat matrix in America.

Emergency Exercise
Civil Defense Redux
Emergency Exercise Tornado
Emergency Management National Disaster Medical Exercise
Emergency Management Study Scholarships
How to Prepare for a Natural Disaster
Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Plan Outline
How to Handle a Huge Hurricane
CBRNE - Low Probability, High Impact
EPLEX Emergency Plan Exercise
Church Emergency Evacuation and Lock Down Plan
Roll Up ISIS Social Media Weapons
When State Hackers Take Aim at the Power Grid
Church Emergency Plan Template
Emergency Preparedness Expo
Nuclear Weapons Effects
Volunteer Mobilization Center
Idiot's Guide to Disaster Preparedness
Active Shooter
America Rising - Charity
America Rising - Hope
America Rising - Faith
1983 Salt Lake City Great Flood Reflections

Lack of Action by the Trump Administration on Civil Defense

I was optimistic the Trump Administration would see the wisdom of an outstanding American civil defense program, maybe one on par with Switzerland, but so far I have not seen action on that front.
As Vice President of the Board of Directors of The American Civil Defense Association (TADCA), three times I have sent the Trump White House several issues of the recent issues of Civil Defense Journal of the American Civil Defense Association and not even gotten a note back to say they received them...so who knows.
Maybe one day we can come close to the civil defense program in Switzerland.
The Trump Administration has, at least, offered a brief paragraph in their 2017 national security policy to promote "a culture of preparedness." It's a first step.
For an excellent analysis of how long Hawaii has been unprepared for a nuclear strike, see here.
Michael Mabee, author of the Civil Defense Book, has more faith in the Feds to get it right. 
On his blog, he summarizes the goal well:
"What we should take from the Hawaii false missile alert? It is unacceptable that in the U.S. we have an emergency alert and “nobody knew what to do.” We must fix this. Building a culture of preparedness – a civil defense culture – is a critical task for the national security of the country."

My Twitter Tweets the Day of the Hawaii Catastrophic Alert Failure

I was on Twitter when I read this Tweet from Emily Batty. 
After my heart stopped racing, I posted a hope that it was fake news. 
As the story unraveled that day and the next, the Tweets below show my thoughts.
Note: Unfortunately, I was not able to copy many of these posts to this blog.

  1.  Jan 13
    Hope this is fake news.

    6 mins into our ride here in Hawaii and this is the text I just received? Not sure what to do. Sirens are going off.


0 replies0 retweets0 likes
 56m56 minutes ago
As to the Hawaii false inbound ballistic missile emergency alert: In every disaster drill you must account for human error. It will occur. How is always the mystery.


Whoever the Hawaii public employee is who just pushed the wrong incoming ballistic missile emergency alert button, they deserve a medal and raise for reminding Hawaiians and all Americans just how unprepared they are for such a possibility
 39m39 minutes ago
Ok Hawaii, what can you learn for the next time? See here: As always, 1 in 5,000 will seek to learn anything about this area, despite the reality of possible nuclear war.


 Jan 14
Hawaii releases timeline of what transpired after false ballistic missile warning via y

  1.  Jan 14
    Hawaii's so-called fix for the Emergency Management alert Fiasco is to close down the system. Wrong. My guess is that office is filled with political hacks sadly.
  1.  Jan 15
    Hawaii has a creepy voice announcing incoming ballistic missiles. Just lame. They need to record another version of this message with a HUMAN, not a computer, voice. Get your act together,


    0:31
    False Hawaii Missile alert this morning - Audio Recording from our TV (My Picture) News Link -


 Jan 13
For anyone who due to the Hawaii ballistic missile threat emergency alert woke up to the need to do civil defense prep, here is one resource:
  2.  Jan 13
  1. Hawaii has a creepy voice announcing incoming ballistic missiles. Just lame. They need to record another version of this message with a HUMAN, not a computer, voice. Get your act together,


    0:31
    False Hawaii Missile alert this morning - Audio Recording from our TV (My Picture) News Link -

  3.  Jan 14
    North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat via @pollytacdaorg



    1.  Jan 14
      But has practiced it over and over so the same mistake does not happen again?




    2.  Jan 14
      North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat via @pollytacdaorg
    Bruce Curley‏ @brucecurley Jan 15
    Hawaii has a creepy voice announcing incoming ballistic missiles. Just lame. They need to record another version of this message with a HUMAN, not a computer, voice. Get your act together,


    0:31
    False Hawaii Missile alert this morning - Audio Recording from our TV (My Picture) News Link -



  3.  Jan 15
    Emergency Operations Centers often have political hacks (employees with connections, not skills) working there, as my guess is the case in . Many steps must be taken to correct that fatal error. Here is one:

  1.  Jan 14
    Hawaii releases timeline of what transpired after false ballistic missile warning via
 Jan 16
I said on the day of the fake incoming missile alert, "Hawaii's so-called fix for the Emergency Management alert Fiasco is to close down the system. Wrong. My guess is that office is filled with political hacks sadly." I stand by my statement.


The Hawaiian government released the following timeline of what transpired that day.
Approx. 8:05 a.m. – A routine internal test during a shift change was initiated. This was a test that involved the Emergency Alert System, the Wireless Emergency Alert, but no warning sirens.
8:07 a.m. – A warning test was triggered statewide by the State Warning Point, HI-EMA.
8:10 a.m. – State Adjutant Maj. Gen. Joe Logan, validated with the U.S. Pacific Command that there was no missile launch. Honolulu Police Department notified of the false alarm by HI-EMA.
8:13 a.m. – State Warning Point issues a cancellation of the Civil Danger Warning Message. This would have prevented the initial alert from being rebroadcast to phones that may not have received it yet. For instance, if a phone was not on at 8:07 a.m., if someone was out of range and has since came into cell coverage (Hikers, Mariners, etc.) and/or people getting off a plane.
8:20 a.m. – HI-EMA issues public notification of cancellation via their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
8:24 a.m. – Governor Ige retweets HI-EMA’s cancellation notice.
8:30 a.m. – Governor posts cancellation notification to his Facebook page.
8:45 a.m. – After getting authorization from FEMA Integral Public Alert and Warning System, HIEMA issued a “Civil Emergency Message” remotely.
The following action was executed by the Emergency Alert System (EAS):
1. EAS message over Local TV/Radio Audio Broadcast & Television Crawler Banner.
“False Alarm. There is no missile threat to Hawaii.”
“False Alarm. There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. There is no
missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. False Alarm.”
2. Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA)
“False Alarm. There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii.”
9:30 a.m. – Governor makes initial media notification.
9:34 a.m. – Governor’s message posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Posted by Poetslife at Sunday, February 27, 2022
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