Scared shitless!!!!

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So this is what happens when you are awoken at 8:00 AM from a dead sleep by a statewide alert about a ballistic missile launch that is headed for Hawaii.

1. You freeze! You just can’t believe that Kim Jong Un actually was serious about launching WMDs at us!! Then you read the Alert again and....

2. Check with the lady 3 parking stalls down from you if she got the same Alert. She did. She’s headed home to be with her family.

3. You casually drive over to the Airport building 100 yards away from where you’re at, go inside, show the Alert on your phone to the 2 security guys & ask if they mind if you hang out with them for a while. They smile & say sure.

4. You go down in to the lounge area grab a soda from the machine, plug in your phone & start texting Family & Friends to make sure they’re ok & to let them know you are as safe as possible for the time being.

15 seconds have just elapsed, felt like 20 minutes.

5. Watch Coast Guard launch Radar Plane from airport lounge, wonder why it took them 3 whole minutes to get that plane in the air?!?!?!!!

6. Wonder why the radio & television aren’t running with this story & there are no updates from the State on this Alert ?!?!?!?!!!!

7. Go out to vehicle grab extra shorts & underwear so you can change out of the ones that you shit in, hit Men’s room clean up & change, then put dirty clothes in sealed bag in truck bed for laundering later, close & lock up truck bed, go back in building & continue texting

8. Get False Alarm Notice 40 minutes later, get pissed off & pray for person/persons responsible for this SNAFU to be fired & burnt at the stake, drawn & quartered and/or staked out over an ant hill & covered in honey; not necessarily in that order.

9. Get on Social Media & blog about it while commiserating with Family & Friends about who we want to replace the current Govorner with in the next election.

10. Consider that maybe you over reacted in paragraph 8 & decide that appropriate reprimands & suspensions would probably be better.

11. Go to Wendy’s & indulge in a large frosty & a large order of fries, because dammit that Alert was traumatizing!!

Thanks @missy & @rambo for letting me vent

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wyldemann:
@rambo, @catgrey, @fenix, @bassboy73, @darkfader113 & @bonniedarko; thanks for taking the time to read & comment on my post, yeah it was scary, but I also found out that a lot of people who claim to love me really didn’t give a damn about weather I was safe or not (Bad people, bad, bad people, I’m deleting you all from my FB account!!! Yes they were immediate family members) I was sort of safe, I was in the parking lot by the old Barbers Point Naval Air Station flight Tower which the Coast Guard still uses. There’s also private flight schools there, so it’s open to the public. I like to hang out there & read on my table as the breezes are better than I get at my place, I guess I fell asleep. Ah well, that’s the way it goes sometimes. @darkfader113, I don’t know about tough so much as used to dealing with emergencies from when I was in the Merchant Marine, I saw some much hairier situations much more closely (engine room fire, laundry room fire, getting washed down the port side of a ship by a rouge wave) this just didn’t feel like that first of all there were no planes taking off from Hickam & no ships heading out of Pearl Harbor both of which can be seen from my location plus the Coasties only sent up one plane, so I guess that’s how I managed to stay calm. No nightmares yet either, so I figured I’m ok. 
amorous:
Ohhh wow!! I would of done exactly the same thing!!! And to make you wait 40 minutes to alert you that it was a false alarm!?!? Come on now! But glad you are okay 😊

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