Went through two major disasters. The most critical thing is to have a plan. Make everyone in your household aware of the plan. Then execute it, practice once a year if you can. Execution during the disaster helps distract you from the emotional turmoil.
What It Felt Like in Hawaii When Warning of an In-Bound Missile Arrived
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#32I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war. First, I'm going to press send on the doomsday draft which is sitting in my e-mail. Second, I'm going to go to youtube and play "We all go together" by Tom Leher. Third, I got a bottle sitting in my desk that I'm going to pop open. Presumably I'll be in the office at the time so one final round with the coworkers. The people in this article se…
I don't think it's as bad as you think. Check out this thread: https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/952265416289632256. If shit hits the fan and you end up surviving, your help in the aftermath can be crucial.
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#33Stupid question: why would you fill up your bathtub?
Stocking up on drinking water or having a source of water to flush the toilet with (by manually refilling the tank).
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#34A good piece of perspective on this -- it's what many civilians feel day in day out in places like Pakistan when killer drones are flying over.
Until it becomes the sad norm and you just get on with your life I guess.
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#35Pedantic pet peeve: spelling it as Hawaii instead of Hawai'i
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#36I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war. First, I'm going to press send on the doomsday draft which is sitting in my e-mail. Second, I'm going to go to youtube and play "We all go together" by Tom Leher. Third, I got a bottle sitting in my desk that I'm going to pop open. Presumably I'll be in the office at the time so one final round with the coworkers. The people in this article se…
I'm guessing that you don't have children. And no, your plan isn't as good as any other; its just one that suits your own fatalistic attitude toward the risks involved.
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#37I find it really annoying that top two articles on HN are completely separate from engineering. Since when have posts from news sources been able to not just make it to the front page, but dominate the front page? Years ago, coming to this site helped me to become an engineer and changed the way I think about problems. But now I don't get that, and instead get plenty of feel-good articles and useless posts that don't…
You might find it useful to read the HN Guidelines [1] "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It continues
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
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#38I think it's safe to assume the 100,000+ Iraqi civilians killed in the conflict in Iraq received no such warning. It's shameful how completely unaware most Americans are of the terror their MIC imposes on others.
Ironically, this incident in HI will feed the collective fears and the wrath of the MIC will extend further still. The opportunity to question the status quo will be lost.
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#39How close did we get to nuking them “back”?
The US military never thought that there was any nuclear attack inbound so not at all. The real danger was that either North Korea thought that this alarm was cover for us preparing for a counterstrike after we preemptively nuked them, causing them to decide to launch, or that Trump saw the news on Fox and ordered a launch and didn't let himself be dissuaded.
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#40Nearly forty minutes passed before a second message went out: “There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii.
...“It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button.”
I've seen some shitty Admin Panels, but somebody "pushed the wrong button" and an end-of-your-world false alarm was going off for 40 minutes?! WTF?