Politics Hawaii Ballistic Missile Inbound Warning (NOT TRUE)

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lawai'a said:
you don't pay her salary. the USPS turns a profit.
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Actually, they haven't turned a profit ever since Congress saddled them with pre-funding retirement for all employees, but that's an unfair requirement not put on any other agency. It was done by a crooked Congress to give FedEx and UPS an unfair advantage.

Still, it's clear by your posts that no official order to go home was given by her employer and she simply made the choice on her own.
 
MARIS61 said:
Actually, they haven't turned a profit ever since Congress saddled them with pre-funding retirement for all employees, but that's an unfair requirement not put on any other agency. It was done by a crooked Congress to give FedEx and UPS an unfair advantage.

Still, it's clear by your posts that no official order to go home was given by her employer and she simply made the choice on her own.
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Friendly tip, which you should know, you've been around forums longer than I have, but fucking with people's spouses never ends well.
 
MARIS61 said:
Actually, they haven't turned a profit ever since Congress saddled them with pre-funding retirement for all employees, but that's an unfair requirement not put on any other agency. It was done by a crooked Congress to give FedEx and UPS an unfair advantage.

Still, it's clear by your posts that no official order to go home was given by her employer and she simply made the choice on her own.
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she and her coworkers were officially told by her superiors"to go be with your families". don't care if you believe it ornot. as a "supposed" former USPS employee, you should know that the official usps vehicles are designated as emergency response vehicles in any first response scenarios. EMS has first dibs.
 
lawai'a said:
she and her coworkers were officially told by her superiors"to go be with your families". don't care if you believe it ornot. as a "supposed" former USPS employee, you should know that the official usps vehicles are designated as emergency response vehicles in any first response scenarios. EMS has first dibs.
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Whoa whoa whoa, whatever happened to whether rain nor sleet nor snow nor nuclear missile or whatever that slogan is?
 
If true, the USPS in Hawaii seems to just do what it wants despite how it operates in the other 49 states.

Absolutely crucial to the success of emergency operations nationwide, and proud of it, USPS employees have long been an invaluable resource due to their unmatchable knowledge of location, location, location, of every business and every residence. And the vehicles to get to them. And drivers who know the routes. They saved many lives during the Tillamook Flood when I was at the Corps. Huge part of the Katrina rescues. They are charged with delivering emergency meds, supplies, doctors... Without their massive participation, most emergency operations would be sadly undermanned and inefficient.

https://www.prc.gov/sites/default/files/archived/Emergency_Prep_Report.pdf

Hearing the claim that they ran home and supposedly handed their vehicles over to the failed state agency that caused the panic sounds like cause for a Congressional Inquiry.
 
MARIS61 said:
If true, the USPS in Hawaii seems to just do what it wants despite how it operates in the other 49 states.

Absolutely crucial to the success of emergency operations nationwide, and proud of it, USPS employees have long been an invaluable resource due to their unmatchable knowledge of location, location, location, of every business and every residence. And the vehicles to get to them. And drivers who know the routes. They saved many lives during the Tillamook Flood when I was at the Corps. Huge part of the Katrina rescues. They are charged with delivering emergency meds, supplies, doctors... Without their massive participation, most emergency operations would be sadly undermanned and inefficient.

https://www.prc.gov/sites/default/files/archived/Emergency_Prep_Report.pdf

Hearing the claim that they ran home and supposedly handed their vehicles over to the failed state agency that caused the panic sounds like cause for a Congressional Inquiry.
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your funny
 
I probably should read this thread. I went through a number of tsunami siren alerts when I lived there in the 60s, which woke everyone up downtown. They were usually false warnings after an earthquake in Japan, predicting a 100-foot wave to travel thousands of miles and arrive hours later. Meanwhile, my father commanded all Air Force and Army postage from Hawaii to Pakistan, 800 Air Force people. Then he'd come home. I was the only person he knew who wasn't afraid of him, and I was a half-pint. This is why you always see me handle BrianFromWA like putty.
 
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jlprk said:
Everybody ran when I offered to talk about postal service in Hawaii. I own a dozen of these porcelain ashtrays, never used. You can actually get money for them?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/034-SEYIE-...stal-Group-South-East-Asia-Dish-/352250296097?
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lawai'a said:
i am convinced you would make a fine postal employee in hawaii. my wife says most of the people she works with are crazy.......................
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Ha!
I some what regret my first impression I allowed to take root when I first came to S2. Something gave me an unkind thought about jlprk.
It was an error. Should have let time correct the take, instead act foolishly.
 
MarAzul said:
Ha!
I some what regret my first impression I allowed to take root when I first came to S2. Something gave me an unkind thought about jlprk.
It was an error. Should have let time correct the take, instead act foolishly.
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That something was my aggressive reaction to your early posts advocating killing large numbers of Muslims for being Muslims. But the mods got you to soften your tone. And you always have a neutral subject, your boat, to talk about. So now you're tolerable, in a hick-grammar sort of way.

By the way, if you think that just because I'm an Air Force brat, I'm pro-military, you're wrong. I am proud to have luckily not gotten drafted after failing to flunk my draft exam, escaping a bad war. Here's a sample of a draft exam. You sit all day in your underwear (there were hundreds of tough guys in my giant room in Los Angeles, but only a dozen in this clip, must be a small town, and they don't look anywhere near as tough). Half the guys want to flunk, but don't know how. So Nixon got rid of the draft.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/241428/Alice-s-Restaurant-Movie-Clip-Draft-Board.html
 
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...b-minutes-after-false-ballistic-missile-alert
Following last weekend’s erroneous ballistic missile alert – an accident that sent crowds of people fleeing restaurants and stores in a frenzied panic – millions of Hawaiians took to Pornhub.com to ease their tension.

In the minutes after the fraudulent missile alert was sent at 8:07 am, traffic plunged some 77% below its level from a typical Saturday.

"Based on real-time, per-minute page-views, and compared to levels on the previous two Saturdays, our statisticians found a precipitous drop in traffic at 8:07am immediately after the warning was sent out. By 8:23 am, traffic was a massive -77% below that of a typical Saturday," Pornhub said.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...le-alert-the-fcc-says/?utm_term=.f406ef5a3363

Some awesomeness in this one:
The Hawaii employee who sent out a false alarm earlier this month warning of an incoming missile attack said they misheard a message played during a drill and believed a ballistic missile was actually heading for the state, according to a federal investigation. This directly contradicts the explanations previously offered by Hawaii officials, who have said the Jan. 13 alert was sent because the employee hit the wrong button on a drop-down menu.
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We absolutely sure it wasn't a YouTube video?

Following standard procedures, the night-shift supervisor posing as U.S. Pacific Command played a recorded message to the emergency workers warning them of the fake threat. The message included the phrase “Exercise, exercise, exercise," the FCC report said, but it also had the “This is not a drill" language used for actual missile alerts. The worker who then sent the emergency alert said they did not hear the "exercise" part of the message. According to the FCC report released Tuesday, this worker is the only one who apparently did not understand it was a drill.
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Of course not.

This person, who has not been publicly identified, declined to be interviewed by investigators, but they did provide a written statement, the FCC said.
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Boy, I wish I could "decline to be" asked about how I completely bollocksed my job, but I guess that's just for us weapon-toting government employees.

To address what happened, Hawaii emergency management officials will require additional approvals before alerts and tests are transmitted. The state has suspended emergency alert drills and, in the future, plans to provide more warning before drills. Officials in Hawaii also said that going forward, a second person will be needed to confirm sending out alerts.
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So, instead of just firing the one idiot who couldn't be bothered to pay attention and do the job correctly, you're instituting a reduction in training frequency and a less-realistic training environment? Sweet. And institute a "2nd-person confirmation" policy? Sure, slow it down. That's cool, when you have 17 minutes to live.

Officials in Hwaii have drawn criticism for how long it took them to correct the alert and reassure the public. Ige has said it took him as long as it did to weigh in because he had forgotten his Twitter password.
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It totally sucks that the only outlet the governor of the state has for informing the public that their impending thermonuclear doom is not actually approaching is a twitter account he forgot the password to. I'm pretty sure that's how Pearl Harbor happened, too.

Three minutes after the message was sent, the day-shift supervisor received the false cellphone alert, and the process of responding to the mistake began. The emergency management agency notified Ige of the problem. Seven minutes after the alert was sent, officials stopped broadcasting the alert — but because there was no plan for how to handle a false alert, the agency could not issue an official correction. It was not until 26 minutes into the crisis that officials settled on a proper method to inform the public about the all-clear, and workers began drafting a correction. It took another 14 minutes after that for the correction to be distributed.
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So, they knew in 3 minutes it was a messup (I kind of call BS on this one...the dude that "pushed the button" didn't immediately spend the next 60 seconds saying "HOLY SHIT WE'RE GONNA DIE, EVERYONE!1!11!" and get told "it's a drill, idiot. Wait, you didn't actually think it was real, did you?"). But regardless, they supposedly knew at the 3 minute point. It took them 23 more minutes to say "Hmm, maybe we should work on how to tell everyone that this isn't real?" Or, while that debate was going on, someone saying "let's start writing this up, so that when you folks figure out how to send out something, we'll have that something ready to go?"
 
Well, they fired him/her. And apparently s/he has a history of confusing real life and drills. How you give someone with that problem that particular job, I'm not sure.

If only the employee had had an emotional support peacock with them at work that day!

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