FCC Vows Probe into False Alarm That Sent Hawaii Scrambling for Cover

atarione said:
who actually wants to survive the apocalypse... I mean I get the romantic notion of roaming around like madmax or whatever.. but more likely you will be knee deep in decomposing bodies, and it will smell worse than anything you can imagine.... and then you will die of Dysentery... pass

Unless... I could managed to be well out of urban areas with a bunch of supplies and an AMC Javelin AMX... then maybe


but mostly I think surviving the big one would kinda suck.. and you'd be likely to envy the dead pretty quickly...
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Dysentery and decomposing bodies may not be a problem. Just look at the area around Chernobyl, the leaves there just fall to the ground and never decay because all of the microbes and fungus have been killed off.

Mchart said:
We live on an island with tens of thousands of people.

There are no shelters. There is no where to move to. There are no basements.

When the alarm woke us up my wife and I went back to bed. We’re within the instant death zone anyways.

When you hear the alarm you basically have 10 minutes. With how bad traffic is you’re 100% dead if you aren’t already on the north part of the island/ on one of the other islands.

So don’t give people crap for being clueless because they’re ultimately screwed anyways unless they can teleport.
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My comment wasn't that the people of Hawaii were at fault, it is the government that is at fault. They reinstated this warning system and basically told the public nothing about what to do if they actually sent out the warning. I know here some of the court houses still have the fallout shelter signs outside and I bet there is hardly anyone under the age of 45 that even knows what they are. I am 50 and barely remember what they were for, but growing up during the cold war we still had a fear of such things happening back then. We never did the bomb drills that those a little older than me did, but we were definitely told we were in danger of the Soviets launching, even if it was very unlikely.

The big nukes that the US and Russia still have would be deadly for anyone within 50-100 miles from ground zero, but the one from North Korea I doubt would be a problem that far away. Plus with their current tech, even if they launched a missile at Hawaii, it would probably hit in the ocean, so finding cover just might make it survivable. The big question though is still, why would the government implement any kind of warning system if they didn't also build some shelters and educate people on what to do if the warning happens?
 
katanaD said:
LOL there is no country on the planet that is dumb enough to launch a sneak attack using a nuke on the US, or any other country, as the resultant retaliation would mean utter ruin for said country. The only people who would use a nuke first are terrorists who would have to drive it to a location in the broken down trucks.

Now.. if there is another world war.. then that would change things.
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...dont know what the third world war will be, I do know that the one after will be fought with sticks and stones....
 
Mchart said:
We live on an island with tens of thousands of people.

There are no shelters. There is no where to move to. There are no basements.

When the alarm woke us up my wife and I went back to bed. We’re within the instant death zone anyways.

When you hear the alarm you basically have 10 minutes. With how bad traffic is you’re 100% dead if you aren’t already on the north part of the island/ on one of the other islands.

So don’t give people crap for being clueless because they’re ultimately screwed anyways unless they can teleport.
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I know that this may be considered in bad taste so i'm asking your opinion.

Heard on TMZ: With minutes for the bomb to hit what do you do. Who do you confess to and what? Somebody needs to start a thread with this. It could be interesting.
 
Khahhblaab said:
...dont know what the third world war will be, I do know that the one after will be fought with sticks and stones....
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" - Einstein
 
One N. Korean nuke would not flatten most of the Hawaiian Islands. An attack would be survivable but not talking shelter would affect that.
 
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