I was drinking the night before. I was woken up by the alert. It took me a minute to really understand what was happening. Quickly came to terms with there was nowhere to go. Understood surviving the initial blast wouldn't really be surviving because of the radiation. Texted family, and turned off my phone because crying family was not the last thing I wanted to hear. I made my peace, went back to bed, and quickly fell back a sleep because I was hangover. Woke up two hours later.
Remember when you just sent a text and went back to sleep before you were supposed to die. I bet a lot of your family will just say oh if you knew the day you were going to die then you will only take a nap
I was around 14 when this happened and it completely changed my outlook on life I thought about how many things I haven’t done and when it turned out to be fake I gained a new appreciation for my life
we had a tsunami scare, (this was post Japan 2011 tsunami) and I was drunk af that afternoon, with no tall buildings to run, I remember just sitting still in the gutter with my eyes closed doing life flashbacks or recaps while waiting to be washed out by water lol.. but yeah, I never appreciated life that much, until then.. I even went back to our drinking place to pay for the drinks lol
I was vacationing in Hawaii when this happened. Woke up and checked my phone to see the auto-emergency system text warning saying that we were about to be nuked. I was so tired from the night before, that I just went back to bed. I figured it would be better to be asleep and become eviscerated than awake. I figured there was nowhere I could even get to to be safe. Family went down to the beach in the morning too. I remember thinking that at least they got to do something relaxing before the end.
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I was in dorms at UH when I got it, and you could hear other kids screaming and crying, it was pretty spooky. Me and my GF got up and ran to on of the “bomb” shelters where it was even more mass chaos. We stayed there for a bit calling family and stuff until we got the alert it was not real. The next day UH told us we would’ve died anyways in the bomb shelters because they hadn’t been updated in decades, so they removed all the bomb shelter signs lmao
My college also had bomb shelters (from the cold war, I think?). The shelters weren't ineffective bc "they hadnt been updated in decades"; it's bc they were never effective in the first place. They were never even really intended to be. They were just comfort. This big scary thing is happening but don't worry, we have bomb shelters, so you can go on about your life again. They were just hope for a community that they could do something if shit went down. Also our bomb shelters had lots of asbestos so, ya know, not ideal hang out places. Lol.
I was on a run that day. My phone made a noise that it never had before. I found a dead puffer fish at the beach, and just sat down next to him. Called my mom and told her I loved her. Called my cousin and she was asleep. Sent a few texts. Dropped my phone in the sand. And just waited and cried a little lmao. Looking out to sea.
@@leoneagle8514 you know honestly, I was sitting there unemotional. I was making my peace. Waiting to see if I could actually see the missile pass over. Makaha beach was almost entirely empty that day for some reason. Except for an elderly couple who were sitting a few dozen feet away, and they were holding each other crying. And that kind of opened the floodgates 😂
I was around 13 and cooking bacon at the time, when all the sudden my parents started flipping out and I was rushed into the bathroom (they thought it would be the safest place) with my parents and 4 of my siblings. We just kind of sat there not really knowing what to do, and at some point my mom just said something along the lines of “if we die then I’ll finally be done working and stressing out” and my family just kind of started laughing at the whole thing. I kept trying to convince them to let me get the bacon off the stove before it burned because I wasn’t about to die hungry. A family I knew squished themselves in between two mattresses and just sat there until they realized there was no threat. It was quite the experience.
I have family in Hawaii and what they told me is that most locals realized pretty quickly that it was probably a false alarm but I'm sure some people took it way more seriously, just goes to show how people can react so differently to the same situation ...
@ErikPT not sure, it was a few years ago maybe 2017-2018 my inlaws and cousins live on the big island and I think they realized petty quickly it was a false alarm
Yeah, because we have sirens all over the islands. We'd know if it's an actual threat if those were blasting off. But most of them didn't but I heard others have heard some sirens being set off.
I've seen videos online of people videotaping tornados coming right at them, all the way up until it took them. Some people freak out and panic, some people deny until they die. It's wild.
I worked as a Lead Security Officer for a small University in Honolulu on that weekend day. I was just heading off campus to check the off campus student resident halls when I got the notification over my phone. I turned the car around and headed back to Base. I met up with my fellow officer and he as like " what do we do". Well, I've watched some general documentaries and a few about rockets and such. I told my Co-worker that from the detection of the launch and then the perdition of its destination and top of the time it would take to put out the public notification, I told him we may have less than 25 minutes before impact. All this was with in the 8 minutes of initial public notification. I had told my co-worker to grab the hard hat and safety vests and head out to the on campus evacuation location that's used incase of hurricanes or other natural disasters. I told him that Pearl Harbor would be the target if anything and with a part of a Mountain shielding the University, hopefully it would deflect some of the blast wave. In the mean time of doing all this I'm getting phone call's from Student Resident Directors asking me what to do. Knowing how long it would take them to get all of the students out of the Dorms, Lined up and head counted and then escorted to the evacuation location, the missile (if any) would have impacted. Told them to stay indoors and away from any windows and we'll see what to do after the blast. Well with the false alarm notification I can say we were all happy. But then I had to deal with the 'After-Action" report from my boss. I was slightly berated on why I didn't help evacuate a few of the weekend classes that was in session at the time( about 10). I had to state over a few times that even with the my co-worker and myself running all over campus to evacuate and escort people, the Missile would have hit and what good would I be? I also stated at one time on what emergency drill did we practice for a missile strike scenario? He said good point and used that for his debriefing with the School high up's...
that ending... I could tell that after action report is gonna be pretty short and curt with that as TLDR. like on what god damn checklist would a missile strike be on? NASA's? def not a civilian building meant for civilian activities...
That was a wild fuckin day. I was laying in bed when I got the message. Immediately ran outside half-naked, slippers flew off before I'd made it 10 feet, but I just kept sprinting. Was trying to get to UH, since I figured the concrete buildings at least stood a better chance of protecting me than my shoddy house. I remember all the buildings I found were locked, and for whatever reason I felt too self-conscious to break any of the glass doors or windows. Eventually I just gave up and hid in an elevator waiting to die. Called my parents and talked for a bit. It was the most bizarre experience of my life. 40 minutes later I found out it was all a big fuck up, and there was no missile lol. I stumbled home then just... did nothing for an entire week. As a side note, my roommate's security camera caught me running out the door with my pants literally falling down. Funny enough that it managed to center me after the fact. Still gives me a chuckle whenever I think of it
I was living in Hawaii when that happened, it was the most surreal 45 minutes of my life. Waking up to the Nuke warning, hearing no updates from the state, and even hearing the nuke alarm on my phone it was insane. We gave the state a lot of crap the net month after that
Had a similar experience with being infected with COVID. I am an orphan and I don't have any close friends. I was told by the hospital to stay home until I get better. I had a bad fever for almost two weeks so I figured I was going to die in a few days. I set up a dead man email to my employer apologizing for dying. Left a will to donate my video game collection to a game museum and waited for my death. I was surprised that I lived.
Bro please adopt a dog or something or get good friends I know easier said than done. I’m sorry for you going through this and hope your doing better also your employer hope you find better you deserve it
@@hasti5915 I feel like a disgusting slob obese monster due to my insecurities so I purposely avoid personal interactions with others. I am making it a challenge in order to lose weight and when I reach certain milestones I reward myself with coming a bit out of my isolation. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
i believe ther is a man in Pompeii who was covered in lava and turning him into a statue. This was fairly common but this guy was the only one caught doing what Joey would have done, so he is forever immortalized having one last coom.
I got into the same hole as him. Red a few reddit post. One guy slept through it. One called his family calmly saying it's the end basically. Another person missed the alert and took a walk when no one was outside on the street laike he was the last man on earth.
I read that last story and all I could think about was that scene from Shaun of the Dead when he's doing his normal routine completely oblivious to the zombie attacks
I was starting out highschool at the time, and it was a pretty surreal experience. I was chilling at home with just my older brother watching tv at the time and we just saw the alert on both the tv and our phones. I'm like woah man. So I turned to my older brother. "Holy shit, we're gonna die, aren't we?" I said pretty nervously. "Yeah." He replied, still looking at his phone. It wasn't really nonchalant, but more like accepting. "The fuck are you doing?" "I dunno man, I just thought uh... y'know." And we kinda just... kept chilling watching tv. Our parents were at work, and we didn't really think to call anybody. I looked out the window every now and then to see if there was gonna be a cool explosion. It was more exciting than depressing. It's really weird how quickly we both accepted that death was coming in like an hour. After it ended, we were just like. "Huh. Alright then." and continued on with our day. Though it makes for a good story at least, watching television before the explosion.
hopefully im not the only one tearing up reading some of these stories lmao, its just really depressing and heartbreaking reading some of these and just imagining yourself and your family being in that situation
Honestly I was there and I'm tearing up just remembering it. I did come to appreciate life so much more after the fact, though. I had never legitimately believed I was going to be killed before so it was pretty harrowing.
Imagining what is happening and thinking that there is nothing we can do than just die makes me think all the things I did and if I did something to others and self reassures that Everything is fine even if we cease to exist but it is still sad to go because I want to do more and die of old age with a loving family. But now I will die, I am not the lucky ones to experience those moments the future plans and everything. All those things accumulated to my brain makes me emotional. Even if that scenario didn't happen, I still am thinking of that what if's and makes me still feel grounded and be reminded to appreciate all the present and be blessed from the past that what made the present and could happen to the future.
Literally woke up not knowing what the hell was going on. I moved my ex girlfriend and my brother who I was living with in the time to the bathroom which was in the middle of this complete concrete apartment. I felt like I was gonna make it but we were just preparing for the impact. I had a very confident feeling that we were gonna make it out alive. It was pretty freaky to think about.
I remember it was my day off and i slept through the entire thing. My parents didn't wake me up, but by the time i did wake up, they had already announced it was a false alarm. It pretty much changed how i look at life nowadays and some couple actually dressed as our governor and a phone with the warning on the phone part of the costume too. We got a good laugh out of the costume, but it also hit a little close to home knowing i could've literally rested in peace that morning
I was there when this happened. I got woken up by my mom and she gathered the family together and talked about it, and then we argued over what we were gonna eat last. I decided to listen to “The End” by My Chemical Romance while watching the bomb go off from my hill on Kapolei and knew there wasn’t much I could do. A quick prayer while I watch the blast get closer while sitting in my backyard. Edit: My sisters and I put out Snapchats saying we loved everyone and that I appreciated everything they’ve done for me before turning off my phone. Had family members calling for hours after it came on the news.
I had just smoked a spliff when we got the message. My mom and my relatives all freaked out (we were all at my grandparents' house) and decided to take as much shelter on the first floor as they could. I just took my computer to the lanai and watched Atletico Madrid play, while looking towards the ocean, absolutely blitzed out of my mind. Sort of bummed that's not the way I went... I doubt the real way will be as nice.
Fortunately it was on Hawaii, think of the commotion if this happend on mainland US. People would be speeding, way too many accidents would have happend.
Perhaps a bold increase in crimes too. Fortunately it was in Hawaii-where there’s a culture of looking out for each other. So, ironically, if you do something against someone, you better believe it’s gonna come around and bite you
@@mythlessrwf I mean I heard stories of people flat out opening food stands near bomb shelters and giving out free stuff. Keep in mind, this was early in the morning and these folks decided "Nah man. I'm just going to give people their last meals."
It was just a normal Saturday doing my morning chores and suddenly we get the alarm. I had just called my dad since he had gone to work and my brother and mom were home. We were pretty much saying our prayers and goodbyes. I was ready at that point to accept what we thought was going to happen. Ever since then I haven't thought about life the same.
I woke up to the missile alert. I was only 14 when this happened. I can't describe the turmoil and confusion I experienced when I read the THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I felt very helpless, mom had left for work, and I was left alone. She called me and told me to seek help from the neighbors, but the neighbors were old, and they weren't doing anything. In a last ditch effort, mom told me to go to the bathroom with my dog. 40 mins seems long, but it's short. Too short for me to come to peace with my impending doom. Fortunately, nothing happened. And the next monday, our class all laughed about it. We were kids. What else can you do but laugh after a brush of certain death?
He's probably talking about how it changes your life. Like the moment you make peace with death and your 100% sure its gonna happen but eventually its not. it sort of "scars" you in a mental way. While it depends per person, you probably have a better outlook on life. Maybe the closest comparison is like when suicidal people regret doing it after they failed and they get a better outlook on life since they actually didn't want to die.
Yup I was texting loved ones letting them I loved them, it was pretty terrifying. We just sat in the living room and watched the news waiting, nothing you can really do. Worst part my parents worked on a air force base and could not leave. Nothing you can do but accept it
I was out paddling, and my coach rallied together some people to get the boats out of the water. We helped some other teams get theirs out too. Everyone else ran to the shopping center Ala Moana/Walmart/Sams Club. I didn’t know Jim Carrey was there, let alone probably at Waikiki nearby, while I was helping haul boats. The next day a teacher at my school told everyone that had the threat been real, we all would have died since the island of Oahu is too small for anywhere to be safe.
Slept through it, family didnt bother waking me up cause they knew it was probably a false alarm because we usually have sirens accompanying any alerts
When I received the notification on my phone, I was eating breakfast with my grandparents. I definitely panicked, but I quickly accepted it. The main thing I was thinking was to not tell my grandparents about it. There wasn't really much we could do so I just sat there and tried to continue to eat my breakfast while waiting for to the missile to come. Thank god it was a false alarm, but the time before they told us it was a false alarm was the worst half hour of my life. It was one thing to accept it, but having to wait for what I thought is the inevitable was really difficult
That's actually one thing that kept popping up while I was deep in this rabbit hole. The worst part for many people was the sense of dread for almost an hour not knowing if it was going to be quick and painless, slow and agonizing, or how it'd be for their family/friends also living on the island.
I remember when we heard our Governor took 30 minutes to login to his Twitter account and announced that it was a false alarm, I seen memes about it the next day.
I lived in hawaii at the time. I was in 5th grade and me and my parents were locking up to go shopping. I asked my parents about it and they shrugged and continued locking the house. As we were driving it was full chaos. People were running in and out of sack n save, and my parents just acted like everything was normal.
Another added layer of this was that it felt so real because we all know the history of Hawaii as a pawn in war. It’s got many US military bases and frankly, I feel like it’s a very likely target based on its location. I’ll never forget this day, the beautiful sunny weather, saying goodbye to my family members and playing out what life or afterlife was going to look like after nuclear attack. I lived nearby a highway, could hear tires screeching and knew for a time to those of us who thought it was real: laws were irrelevant and we were in survival mode. Also, about the confession question: I heard an episode of the podcast This American Life where a guy confessed his love for a woman during the missile alert and they got together afterwards. Wish I remembered the episode!
When this happened, we were in the middle of a robotics competition. The alerts went off during practice and we were panicking at first, but I just kinda gave up. I remember that day being like any other day with blue sky and sunshine, but the feeling of looming death just made it feel different.
I was woken up by my husband calling me to say there was an emergency alert and that missiles were coming towards us. I laid in bed for a few minutes, figuring where was I going to go, might as well just stay put. Then I figured I should probably at least move away from the windows if I was on the fringe of the blast and moved to the hallway. Then after a few minutes, my friend who had just left the emergency management agency texted me to say that it was a false alert and we were all going to be fine. I sat around for awhile more, still sleepy.
I just woke up with my family that day, we made breakfast and sat and watched some TV together, can’t out run it. Why fight it? Die together, die happy.
I was stationed in Pearl Harbor from 2016-2020 and even the Navy for a second was confused. I woke up that morning to the alert, saw all the texts and stuff from my other friends on base (we lived there) and they wanted to meet up at the McDonalds there to have one last meal together. The people in my chain of command were directing us to drive to one of the underground malls for shelter. Didn't take that much longer after those orders that they told us it was a false alarm. But I felt really bad for all the people who didn't find out till much later.
wait... ain't the military supposed to have the first chain of command? and the alarms / warning system being civilian command as last? why are they confused... IIRC the break in the chain was at the civilian side...
There would be a suddenly excitement in me if i know everyone was gonna die within an hour tbh. So many burdens and fears lifted off my shoulders. Course if it was a false alert that would suck cause I'd feel so awkward having to live still
I was stationed in HI during this lol. My unit and I were out in Cali for a training exercise and remember when the alerts came thru bc several of my fellow Marines had HI numbers. My buddy’s phone went off with that emergency alert tone that scares the hell outta everyone. We were all confused af and their families in HI were frantically calling them until the false alarm was passed. Nothing official came down from leadership either so it was eerie and surreal tbh.
@@PrograError perhaps. I kept my original Cali number and didn’t receive that alert, but I could’ve also been that I had barely any reception in the training area. I assume it uses the same system as the Amber Alerts, Flash Food, Emergency mass notification system.
I was about… 11? It was terrifying, I was running around scared like hell, my mom was talking with her friends and my grandmother was just watching the news. After it ended I developed a huge-ass fear of nukes and a huge anxiety about that.
I remember when this happened and didnt think it was legit since we didnt get any other emergency notifications. I also remember thinking no point in rushing to a shelter since were on a rock.
I live in hawaii and when it happened I’m not gonna lie I slept through the whole thing 😂😂. It wasn’t until I got to work when they brought it up and I had no idea what they were talking about. They asked what I was doing when it was going on I told them I was sleeping and they were completely shocked by my answer. So if it ever happens for real Ill know I died a peaceful death.
I'm pretty sure it was fake, but I remember one story that a guy was living with his sister, and the two decided to have sex out of some sort of morbid curiosity and ofc when the nuke didn't happen it ls made for an awkward relationship since
i live in Oregon but my phone still has a Hawaii zip code so I still get warning messages from Hawaii. I freaked the hell out when i got the warning on my phone and panicked calling my family who still resides in Hawaii. no one was picking up at first then got through with my parents panicking. That incident was a cluster.
I was stationed in Hawaii at the time. I had duty the day before with a mid watch. So when I got releived by the next section I just went home and went to sleep. I woke up to the alert on my phone. Figured there was no out running the missile so I rolled over and went back to sleep.
There was a pastor who literally heard about it while driving and calming said "Welp time to go to church it's that time" and calmly turned his car around to drive to church.
My friend was out on a boat tour diving when the alert came, and they left him in the water. of course they came back for him when it was a false alarm.
I was at work at the time and they told us all to gather in the cafeteria to wait for further instructions, i didnt really feel like it was real and kinda assumed it was a mistake just because i thought there was like no reason to get bombed right now? and then like maybe 15 minutes later they told us it may have been a false alarm. I literally just thought lul ok we get to go home early, but then i got home and my entire family was in tears.
Had just gotten back from visiting the big island with my parents and my girlfriend had flown back to the mainland the night before. My brother in California heard it was fake before we did. Took 38 minutes for the false alarm message to come in via the Hawaiian government. Just sat in the only hallway in the house with no windows and talked with family on the mainland
brah when this happened my parents didn’t even wake me up, i woke up late and freaked out for a second then ran into the living room and my family were just watching the news telling me “oh it’s a false alarm” was a crazy afternoon
I remember when this happened, I was playing minecraft but then my family told me to go hide in the closet because there was a ballistic missile alert. For some reason I was not freaking out about it and held hope for a bit. That hope worked because one of my family friends told us it was a false alarm and some new guy accidentally set off the alarm (is what i was told) I then went back to playing minecraft.
a family freind of ours who was in the milatary was teaching a biking class in his neighborhood hood, they all got the alerts. He said "nah, they'd call me first thing if it where real" and they kept biking
My friend and her two younger sisters were over at my house because we were volunteering somewhere that afternoon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. We all packed into a closet while my friends FaceTimed their mom, sobbing and saying goodbye. After it was over, we went on to volunteer at the event like nothing happened. It was surreal, walking around like we didn't think we were going to die that morning.
I remember my family waking up and rushing out the door to a bomb shelter. There were cop cars speeding, people freaking out. I wasn’t sure what to do so I kept joking around even while my mom was crying. It was rough. But it was oddly easy to accept being near death after the panic wore off.
I woke up and it looked too sus. I checked twitter and the radio to only find live weather reports. Uncle was doing his casual Saturday morning bike ride outside. Only when my dorm neighbors started scream crying and I saw crowds rush towards the bomb shelters, it settled in. I went ‘whelp’ and thought it would be fine to watch from my balcony, but my parents insisted they pick me up on their way back home. The false alarm notice came when we were still on the road.
I was there when this happened. I was on Oahu for some military training and I remember hearing all these alarms and I was like what is going on and everyone is saying that there was a missile coming. So I go back to my ship to find out what the hell is going on and if we were going to do anything. Then within about 15 minutes they told us that it was a false alarm but the crazy thing is I thought we had passed on the message to the people of Hawaii but I guess another half hour passed and they were still in panic. 🤦♂️
grab a life jacket and a boat eperb (or some sort of tracker i could get my hands on) and start swimming. I might make it out of the thermal blast radius (depending on the nuke you got plenty of time honestly) but if not i aint going out because some atoms had a divorce
I was in the middle of making my kids some breakfast while on Hickam AFB when the alert happened, I saw it on my phone and paused for a moment, then walked over and kissed each of my kids on the forehead before bringing their food to the table. I sat down with them and said “I love you guys so much.” Then I pretended everything was okay until the follow on message came out. I later reflected on it realizing that I knew if a nuke hit Hawaii, and I was on a military base, I was completely fucked no matter what I did, so I knew it was a waste of effort to panic and that I should spend my last moments loving my kids and not letting them spend their last moments in fear. I learned that day that I am not afraid of death.
Oh man this was a surreal experience. I was asleep when the missle alert woke me up. My mom called and we told each other to take care. I guess we both just accepted that nothing can be done so we just accepted our fates in good spirits. I was still sleepy at the time, so I thought If I'm going to die, I might as well die in my sleep.
I woke up to my mom freaking out about the missile alert and that day I was supposed to go driving with friends. so,I said my goodbyes to my parents and went up the mountain to go drift LOL
It was the weekend so I woke up late MISSING EVERYTHING and it’s probably really shallow to say that I was lowkey bummed out I missed it. I WASNT THERE BUT I WAS ALSO THERE BUT ASLEEP
I was asleep and my phone had been on silent, though I woke up to the forced notification/alert. Instead of reading the alert, I got annoyed, turned off my phone without looking at it, and proceeded to spend my day off sleeping in. When I got out of bed in the afternoon, I turned on my phone and saw dozens of missed texts, DMs and calls. All my friends and family went thru the 5 stages of grief without me. 10/10 would do again
I recall a thread where a guy mentions that he was gonna go out fucking. And his sister was thinking of the same thing. There was presumably no time to look around for other ppl that would agree to this proposition. So they just went fuck it and ploughed each other like no tomorrow. Then it settles in that they weren't gonna die. And they've been awkward ever since.
My mom had woken me up in a panic telling me to pack anything of use, the fear and panic in her eyes was the first time I’ve seen anything in her eyes and I packed as quickly as I can go. Leaving out of my neighborhood my mom drove as quickly as possible, I didn’t know where we were going to go I didn’t know what we were going to do. I just slowly came to the conclusion if this is how I’m going to go I’m happy I’ll be with my mom atleast. Thankfully it was fake and we grabbed Starbucks and just spent time together reflecting.
Not sure what happened to the video I saw of that incident, I think I saw a video where there were looting, but majority of it were people just staying in the hotel and just accepting their fates and conversing with others, I think there was a guy who "bought" something from the convenience store and paid at the counter despite being unattended.
I grew up in Hawaii and was in high school at the time this happened. I was actually asleep and home alone. My mom and sister were out and decided not to wake me. It’s kind of crazy because I only woke up after it was all over. I remember how shaken my friends and school were at the time though.
My sister said that she didn’t tell me because she didn’t want me to panic and especially panic alone. I don’t think I would have handled it, so maybe it was a good call.
I was sleeping when the Hawaii nuclear bomb alarm happened. Nobody bothered to wake me up that morning. If it was a real threat, I likely would have been vaporized in my sleep.
I was on my honeymoon with my wife at a resort. I had actually thought about that situation before going on that trip, and I immediately went to the front desk and asked what was the plan to get to the nearest shelter. They just shrugged and said there were no nuclear shelters anywhere. After that we huddled together in a hallway without any windows on the first floor, best we could do really. After that false alert there were fighter wing exercises from Pearl Harbor every other day for the rest of our trip. Now, call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think there was a missile that was shot down by the military or fell short of its target. I think we were just told it was a mistake, accidentally typing in all caps that a ballistic missile was in bound and accidentally saying it wasn’t a drill, all to prevent WWIII. If that was the case, probably the smartest thing the government could have done. There would be a lot of warmongering otherwise.
I was drinking the night before. I was woken up by the alert. It took me a minute to really understand what was happening. Quickly came to terms with there was nowhere to go. Understood surviving the initial blast wouldn't really be surviving because of the radiation. Texted family, and turned off my phone because crying family was not the last thing I wanted to hear. I made my peace, went back to bed, and quickly fell back a sleep because I was hangover. Woke up two hours later.
What was your first thought when you woke up?
@@Javi.____. "those bastards lied to me" - old man harrison
Remember when you just sent a text and went back to sleep before you were supposed to die. I bet a lot of your family will just say oh if you knew the day you were going to die then you will only take a nap
Damn, what a chad, bro went back to bed. Not even imminent death could wake you up
@@basedtortellini I mean, dying in your sleep is probably the most peaceful way to go.
I was around 14 when this happened and it completely changed my outlook on life I thought about how many things I haven’t done and when it turned out to be fake I gained a new appreciation for my life
I legit went back to sleep
@@Default_Rain lmao can’t blame u
the contrast between you two is hilarious
we had a tsunami scare, (this was post Japan 2011 tsunami) and I was drunk af that afternoon, with no tall buildings to run, I remember just sitting still in the gutter with my eyes closed doing life flashbacks or recaps while waiting to be washed out by water lol.. but yeah, I never appreciated life that much, until then.. I even went back to our drinking place to pay for the drinks lol
@@Default_Rain nah me too lmfao 😂
I slept through the whole thing
I was vacationing in Hawaii when this happened. Woke up and checked my phone to see the auto-emergency system text warning saying that we were about to be nuked. I was so tired from the night before, that I just went back to bed. I figured it would be better to be asleep and become eviscerated than awake. I figured there was nowhere I could even get to to be safe. Family went down to the beach in the morning too. I remember thinking that at least they got to do something relaxing before the end.
Was sleeping it off as well, honestly if I'm gonna go that's the way.
That's quite depressing
Did you ever consider you're still dreaming?
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Sounds exactly like some dude I remember saying. He woke up. Saw the message. And then went right back to sleep immediately
@@madlad2532 Meeting death in your slumber is probably one of the least depressing things to wish for.
I was in dorms at UH when I got it, and you could hear other kids screaming and crying, it was pretty spooky. Me and my GF got up and ran to on of the “bomb” shelters where it was even more mass chaos. We stayed there for a bit calling family and stuff until we got the alert it was not real. The next day UH told us we would’ve died anyways in the bomb shelters because they hadn’t been updated in decades, so they removed all the bomb shelter signs lmao
My college also had bomb shelters (from the cold war, I think?). The shelters weren't ineffective bc "they hadnt been updated in decades"; it's bc they were never effective in the first place. They were never even really intended to be. They were just comfort. This big scary thing is happening but don't worry, we have bomb shelters, so you can go on about your life again. They were just hope for a community that they could do something if shit went down.
Also our bomb shelters had lots of asbestos so, ya know, not ideal hang out places. Lol.
I still give shit to UH that they can get muscle cars for their security people but can’t build enough parking space for their students lmao.
Wait where tf are the shelters I never seen them on campus
@@internetperson573 they had signs but got rid of them in 2018 after it happened
@@keanuxu5435 brah for real. And now with aloha stadium condemned you know they’re about to waste tons of student money building a new stadium
I was on a run that day. My phone made a noise that it never had before. I found a dead puffer fish at the beach, and just sat down next to him. Called my mom and told her I loved her. Called my cousin and she was asleep. Sent a few texts. Dropped my phone in the sand. And just waited and cried a little lmao. Looking out to sea.
Damn must have been terrifying going that experience at that moment
I would have done the same
@@leoneagle8514 you know honestly, I was sitting there unemotional. I was making my peace. Waiting to see if I could actually see the missile pass over. Makaha beach was almost entirely empty that day for some reason. Except for an elderly couple who were sitting a few dozen feet away, and they were holding each other crying. And that kind of opened the floodgates 😂
I was around 13 and cooking bacon at the time, when all the sudden my parents started flipping out and I was rushed into the bathroom (they thought it would be the safest place) with my parents and 4 of my siblings. We just kind of sat there not really knowing what to do, and at some point my mom just said something along the lines of “if we die then I’ll finally be done working and stressing out” and my family just kind of started laughing at the whole thing. I kept trying to convince them to let me get the bacon off the stove before it burned because I wasn’t about to die hungry. A family I knew squished themselves in between two mattresses and just sat there until they realized there was no threat. It was quite the experience.
That bacon better be delicious, I wouldn't want to die thinking "It's meh..."
@@Ye-Hu lmao
I have family in Hawaii and what they told me is that most locals realized pretty quickly that it was probably a false alarm but I'm sure some people took it way more seriously, just goes to show how people can react so differently to the same situation ...
Was this during the Trump announced nuclear missile alert? Man tweeted this unless it was another event
@ErikPT not sure, it was a few years ago maybe 2017-2018 my inlaws and cousins live on the big island and I think they realized petty quickly it was a false alarm
Yeah, because we have sirens all over the islands. We'd know if it's an actual threat if those were blasting off. But most of them didn't but I heard others have heard some sirens being set off.
@@doremi383 ????????????
I've seen videos online of people videotaping tornados coming right at them, all the way up until it took them. Some people freak out and panic, some people deny until they die. It's wild.
I worked as a Lead Security Officer for a small University in Honolulu on that weekend day. I was just heading off campus to check the off campus student resident halls when I got the notification over my phone. I turned the car around and headed back to Base. I met up with my fellow officer and he as like " what do we do". Well, I've watched some general documentaries and a few about rockets and such. I told my Co-worker that from the detection of the launch and then the perdition of its destination and top of the time it would take to put out the public notification, I told him we may have less than 25 minutes before impact. All this was with in the 8 minutes of initial public notification.
I had told my co-worker to grab the hard hat and safety vests and head out to the on campus evacuation location that's used incase of hurricanes or other natural disasters. I told him that Pearl Harbor would be the target if anything and with a part of a Mountain shielding the University, hopefully it would deflect some of the blast wave.
In the mean time of doing all this I'm getting phone call's from Student Resident Directors asking me what to do. Knowing how long it would take them to get all of the students out of the Dorms, Lined up and head counted and then escorted to the evacuation location, the missile (if any) would have impacted. Told them to stay indoors and away from any windows and we'll see what to do after the blast.
Well with the false alarm notification I can say we were all happy. But then I had to deal with the 'After-Action" report from my boss. I was slightly berated on why I didn't help evacuate a few of the weekend classes that was in session at the time( about 10). I had to state over a few times that even with the my co-worker and myself running all over campus to evacuate and escort people, the Missile would have hit and what good would I be? I also stated at one time on what emergency drill did we practice for a missile strike scenario? He said good point and used that for his debriefing with the School high up's...
that ending... I could tell that after action report is gonna be pretty short and curt with that as TLDR.
like on what god damn checklist would a missile strike be on? NASA's? def not a civilian building meant for civilian activities...
That was a wild fuckin day. I was laying in bed when I got the message. Immediately ran outside half-naked, slippers flew off before I'd made it 10 feet, but I just kept sprinting. Was trying to get to UH, since I figured the concrete buildings at least stood a better chance of protecting me than my shoddy house. I remember all the buildings I found were locked, and for whatever reason I felt too self-conscious to break any of the glass doors or windows. Eventually I just gave up and hid in an elevator waiting to die. Called my parents and talked for a bit. It was the most bizarre experience of my life. 40 minutes later I found out it was all a big fuck up, and there was no missile lol. I stumbled home then just... did nothing for an entire week.
As a side note, my roommate's security camera caught me running out the door with my pants literally falling down. Funny enough that it managed to center me after the fact. Still gives me a chuckle whenever I think of it
Hawaii: *accepts their incoming doom*
Connor: I eat turt
I was living in Hawaii when that happened, it was the most surreal 45 minutes of my life. Waking up to the Nuke warning, hearing no updates from the state, and even hearing the nuke alarm on my phone it was insane. We gave the state a lot of crap the net month after that
Had a similar experience with being infected with COVID. I am an orphan and I don't have any close friends. I was told by the hospital to stay home until I get better. I had a bad fever for almost two weeks so I figured I was going to die in a few days. I set up a dead man email to my employer apologizing for dying. Left a will to donate my video game collection to a game museum and waited for my death. I was surprised that I lived.
Hope you are doing better man.
Bro please adopt a dog or something or get good friends I know easier said than done. I’m sorry for you going through this and hope your doing better also your employer hope you find better you deserve it
@@hasti5915 I feel like a disgusting slob obese monster due to my insecurities so I purposely avoid personal interactions with others. I am making it a challenge in order to lose weight and when I reach certain milestones I reward myself with coming a bit out of my isolation. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
My family deadass thought it was real and said we’re gonna die and just accepted it lol
That's so sad! Glad nothing actually happened
That's hilarious
i believe ther is a man in Pompeii who was covered in lava and turning him into a statue. This was fairly common but this guy was the only one caught doing what Joey would have done, so he is forever immortalized having one last coom.
Honestly the story of Hawaii's nuclear scare is probably better than any black mirror episode
I got into the same hole as him. Red a few reddit post. One guy slept through it. One called his family calmly saying it's the end basically. Another person missed the alert and took a walk when no one was outside on the street laike he was the last man on earth.
I read that last story and all I could think about was that scene from Shaun of the Dead when he's doing his normal routine completely oblivious to the zombie attacks
I was starting out highschool at the time, and it was a pretty surreal experience. I was chilling at home with just my older brother watching tv at the time and we just saw the alert on both the tv and our phones. I'm like woah man. So I turned to my older brother.
"Holy shit, we're gonna die, aren't we?" I said pretty nervously.
"Yeah." He replied, still looking at his phone. It wasn't really nonchalant, but more like accepting.
"The fuck are you doing?"
"I dunno man, I just thought uh... y'know."
And we kinda just... kept chilling watching tv. Our parents were at work, and we didn't really think to call anybody. I looked out the window every now and then to see if there was gonna be a cool explosion. It was more exciting than depressing. It's really weird how quickly we both accepted that death was coming in like an hour. After it ended, we were just like. "Huh. Alright then." and continued on with our day. Though it makes for a good story at least, watching television before the explosion.
I said this was fake because other news channels weren't covering about this topic during this alarm. So I went back working out.
chad
Bro would've gone out like a Chad
What a based fucking Chad
hopefully im not the only one tearing up reading some of these stories lmao, its just really depressing and heartbreaking reading some of these and just imagining yourself and your family being in that situation
Honestly I was there and I'm tearing up just remembering it. I did come to appreciate life so much more after the fact, though. I had never legitimately believed I was going to be killed before so it was pretty harrowing.
Imagining what is happening and thinking that there is nothing we can do than just die makes me think all the things I did and if I did something to others and self reassures that Everything is fine even if we cease to exist but it is still sad to go because I want to do more and die of old age with a loving family. But now I will die, I am not the lucky ones to experience those moments the future plans and everything. All those things accumulated to my brain makes me emotional. Even if that scenario didn't happen, I still am thinking of that what if's and makes me still feel grounded and be reminded to appreciate all the present and be blessed from the past that what made the present and could happen to the future.
Literally woke up not knowing what the hell was going on. I moved my ex girlfriend and my brother who I was living with in the time to the bathroom which was in the middle of this complete concrete apartment. I felt like I was gonna make it but we were just preparing for the impact. I had a very confident feeling that we were gonna make it out alive. It was pretty freaky to think about.
I remember it was my day off and i slept through the entire thing. My parents didn't wake me up, but by the time i did wake up, they had already announced it was a false alarm. It pretty much changed how i look at life nowadays and some couple actually dressed as our governor and a phone with the warning on the phone part of the costume too. We got a good laugh out of the costume, but it also hit a little close to home knowing i could've literally rested in peace that morning
Your parents some real ones. Loved you enough to let you go in peace
I remember reading on reddit, Pornhub views spiked during the false missile alert in Hawaii. Lol
Was in HI for this, woke up 4 hours after the text was sent out, read it figured I wasn't dead and just went back to sleep rofl.
I was there when this happened. I got woken up by my mom and she gathered the family together and talked about it, and then we argued over what we were gonna eat last. I decided to listen to “The End” by My Chemical Romance while watching the bomb go off from my hill on Kapolei and knew there wasn’t much I could do.
A quick prayer while I watch the blast get closer while sitting in my backyard.
Edit: My sisters and I put out Snapchats saying we loved everyone and that I appreciated everything they’ve done for me before turning off my phone. Had family members calling for hours after it came on the news.
Dude that story is mental omfg
I had just smoked a spliff when we got the message. My mom and my relatives all freaked out (we were all at my grandparents' house) and decided to take as much shelter on the first floor as they could. I just took my computer to the lanai and watched Atletico Madrid play, while looking towards the ocean, absolutely blitzed out of my mind. Sort of bummed that's not the way I went... I doubt the real way will be as nice.
Fortunately it was on Hawaii, think of the commotion if this happend on mainland US. People would be speeding, way too many accidents would have happend.
It's a morbid thought, but you are entirely correct.
I don't want to imagine the mayhem that would've ensued if that would've happened.
Perhaps a bold increase in crimes too. Fortunately it was in Hawaii-where there’s a culture of looking out for each other. So, ironically, if you do something against someone, you better believe it’s gonna come around and bite you
@@mythlessrwf I mean I heard stories of people flat out opening food stands near bomb shelters and giving out free stuff. Keep in mind, this was early in the morning and these folks decided "Nah man. I'm just going to give people their last meals."
It was just a normal Saturday doing my morning chores and suddenly we get the alarm. I had just called my dad since he had gone to work and my brother and mom were home. We were pretty much saying our prayers and goodbyes. I was ready at that point to accept what we thought was going to happen. Ever since then I haven't thought about life the same.
When the alarm hit, my family pretty much chose to stick together at the end in our apartment. Nothing we could do but accept.
I woke up to the missile alert. I was only 14 when this happened. I can't describe the turmoil and confusion I experienced when I read the THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I felt very helpless, mom had left for work, and I was left alone. She called me and told me to seek help from the neighbors, but the neighbors were old, and they weren't doing anything. In a last ditch effort, mom told me to go to the bathroom with my dog. 40 mins seems long, but it's short. Too short for me to come to peace with my impending doom. Fortunately, nothing happened. And the next monday, our class all laughed about it. We were kids. What else can you do but laugh after a brush of certain death?
Oh I thought Hawai is getting nuked (as in right now lol)
He said “brain chemistry” 5 times in less than a min and yet I still didn’t know wtf was he talking about lol
To be fair he also said “Nuclear ballistic missile bomb” so it’s understandable
He's probably talking about how it changes your life. Like the moment you make peace with death and your 100% sure its gonna happen but eventually its not. it sort of "scars" you in a mental way. While it depends per person, you probably have a better outlook on life. Maybe the closest comparison is like when suicidal people regret doing it after they failed and they get a better outlook on life since they actually didn't want to die.
Something clicks in your head
Yup I was texting loved ones letting them I loved them, it was pretty terrifying. We just sat in the living room and watched the news waiting, nothing you can really do. Worst part my parents worked on a air force base and could not leave. Nothing you can do but accept it
I was out paddling, and my coach rallied together some people to get the boats out of the water. We helped some other teams get theirs out too. Everyone else ran to the shopping center Ala Moana/Walmart/Sams Club. I didn’t know Jim Carrey was there, let alone probably at Waikiki nearby, while I was helping haul boats.
The next day a teacher at my school told everyone that had the threat been real, we all would have died since the island of Oahu is too small for anywhere to be safe.
Slept through it, family didnt bother waking me up cause they knew it was probably a false alarm because we usually have sirens accompanying any alerts
When I received the notification on my phone, I was eating breakfast with my grandparents. I definitely panicked, but I quickly accepted it. The main thing I was thinking was to not tell my grandparents about it. There wasn't really much we could do so I just sat there and tried to continue to eat my breakfast while waiting for to the missile to come. Thank god it was a false alarm, but the time before they told us it was a false alarm was the worst half hour of my life. It was one thing to accept it, but having to wait for what I thought is the inevitable was really difficult
That's actually one thing that kept popping up while I was deep in this rabbit hole.
The worst part for many people was the sense of dread for almost an hour not knowing if it was going to be quick and painless, slow and agonizing, or how it'd be for their family/friends also living on the island.
I remember when we heard our Governor took 30 minutes to login to his Twitter account and announced that it was a false alarm, I seen memes about it the next day.
I lived in hawaii at the time. I was in 5th grade and me and my parents were locking up to go shopping. I asked my parents about it and they shrugged and continued locking the house. As we were driving it was full chaos. People were running in and out of sack n save, and my parents just acted like everything was normal.
Another added layer of this was that it felt so real because we all know the history of Hawaii as a pawn in war. It’s got many US military bases and frankly, I feel like it’s a very likely target based on its location. I’ll never forget this day, the beautiful sunny weather, saying goodbye to my family members and playing out what life or afterlife was going to look like after nuclear attack. I lived nearby a highway, could hear tires screeching and knew for a time to those of us who thought it was real: laws were irrelevant and we were in survival mode.
Also, about the confession question: I heard an episode of the podcast This American Life where a guy confessed his love for a woman during the missile alert and they got together afterwards. Wish I remembered the episode!
That day was such chaos. We had people driving chaotically for safety. I literally assumed it was an error and went to the beach. 😂
Happened on my birthday, so glad it turned out to be a false alarm but at the same time it was concerning that it was a false alarm.
When this happened, we were in the middle of a robotics competition. The alerts went off during practice and we were panicking at first, but I just kinda gave up. I remember that day being like any other day with blue sky and sunshine, but the feeling of looming death just made it feel different.
Listening to this podcast, trying to fall asleep and you hit me with this shit😢
My family didn't believe it so they kept doing what they were doing. I didn't even get a goodbye text from anyone
events like this show you who you are appreciate your life
I was woken up by my husband calling me to say there was an emergency alert and that missiles were coming towards us. I laid in bed for a few minutes, figuring where was I going to go, might as well just stay put. Then I figured I should probably at least move away from the windows if I was on the fringe of the blast and moved to the hallway. Then after a few minutes, my friend who had just left the emergency management agency texted me to say that it was a false alert and we were all going to be fine. I sat around for awhile more, still sleepy.
I just woke up with my family that day, we made breakfast and sat and watched some TV together, can’t out run it. Why fight it? Die together, die happy.
I was stationed in Pearl Harbor from 2016-2020 and even the Navy for a second was confused. I woke up that morning to the alert, saw all the texts and stuff from my other friends on base (we lived there) and they wanted to meet up at the McDonalds there to have one last meal together. The people in my chain of command were directing us to drive to one of the underground malls for shelter. Didn't take that much longer after those orders that they told us it was a false alarm. But I felt really bad for all the people who didn't find out till much later.
wait... ain't the military supposed to have the first chain of command? and the alarms / warning system being civilian command as last?
why are they confused... IIRC the break in the chain was at the civilian side...
If I had to go out in an apocalyptic event, chilling on the beach looking at the ocean sounds like a good way to go. Even better with a nice drink.
There would be a suddenly excitement in me if i know everyone was gonna die within an hour tbh. So many burdens and fears lifted off my shoulders. Course if it was a false alert that would suck cause I'd feel so awkward having to live still
I was stationed in HI during this lol. My unit and I were out in Cali for a training exercise and remember when the alerts came thru bc several of my fellow Marines had HI numbers. My buddy’s phone went off with that emergency alert tone that scares the hell outta everyone. We were all confused af and their families in HI were frantically calling them until the false alarm was passed. Nothing official came down from leadership either so it was eerie and surreal tbh.
it's odd that the warning systems is not geo-located but by registered phone number... probably due to the age of the system?
@@PrograError perhaps. I kept my original Cali number and didn’t receive that alert, but I could’ve also been that I had barely any reception in the training area. I assume it uses the same system as the Amber Alerts, Flash Food, Emergency mass notification system.
This was some scary stuff and I don’t even live in Hawaii. That had me thinking a lot about how they were to dealt with it.
I was about… 11? It was terrifying, I was running around scared like hell, my mom was talking with her friends and my grandmother was just watching the news. After it ended I developed a huge-ass fear of nukes and a huge anxiety about that.
I remember when this happened and didnt think it was legit since we didnt get any other emergency notifications. I also remember thinking no point in rushing to a shelter since were on a rock.
I live in hawaii and when it happened I’m not gonna lie I slept through the whole thing 😂😂. It wasn’t until I got to work when they brought it up and I had no idea what they were talking about. They asked what I was doing when it was going on I told them I was sleeping and they were completely shocked by my answer. So if it ever happens for real Ill know I died a peaceful death.
Now it's time to ask Chris the same question
I slept through the alert lol, I woke up a few hours after it happened
I'm pretty sure it was fake, but I remember one story that a guy was living with his sister, and the two decided to have sex out of some sort of morbid curiosity and ofc when the nuke didn't happen it ls made for an awkward relationship since
I read that too. I'm pretty sure it was a 4chan greentext so take it with a grain of salt
I woke up to the notification didn’t read it and fell back asleep
i live in Oregon but my phone still has a Hawaii zip code so I still get warning messages from Hawaii. I freaked the hell out when i got the warning on my phone and panicked calling my family who still resides in Hawaii. no one was picking up at first then got through with my parents panicking. That incident was a cluster.
G’s pride in writing a clickbait headline to engage his co-hosts can not be saved by confidence alone. Thankfully J’s a real OG.
I heard about a father having to decide which of his two daughters he will spend his last minutes with.
Man, imagine if you were the one he didn't choose.
i remember it was a saturday morning, i woke up and saw the alarm and then went back to sleep 😂
I was stationed in Hawaii at the time. I had duty the day before with a mid watch. So when I got releived by the next section I just went home and went to sleep. I woke up to the alert on my phone. Figured there was no out running the missile so I rolled over and went back to sleep.
I was about to do a paddling race when this happened lol, my dad called me and said “see you in heaven”
There was a pastor who literally heard about it while driving and calming said "Welp time to go to church it's that time" and calmly turned his car around to drive to church.
In Pompeii they found to preserve bodies that were going at it. A lot of people are really confused why they would but what else are you going to do.😅
My friend was out on a boat tour diving when the alert came, and they left him in the water. of course they came back for him when it was a false alarm.
I was at work at the time and they told us all to gather in the cafeteria to wait for further instructions, i didnt really feel like it was real and kinda assumed it was a mistake just because i thought there was like no reason to get bombed right now? and then like maybe 15 minutes later they told us it may have been a false alarm. I literally just thought lul ok we get to go home early, but then i got home and my entire family was in tears.
Had just gotten back from visiting the big island with my parents and my girlfriend had flown back to the mainland the night before. My brother in California heard it was fake before we did. Took 38 minutes for the false alarm message to come in via the Hawaiian government. Just sat in the only hallway in the house with no windows and talked with family on the mainland
This happens every few years, you’d think they would put some controls in place.
I slept through the alert. When I woke up, I noticed a bunch of missed calls and messages about the missile.
brah when this happened my parents didn’t even wake me up, i woke up late and freaked out for a second then ran into the living room and my family were just watching the news telling me “oh it’s a false alarm” was a crazy afternoon
I remember when this happened, I was playing minecraft but then my family told me to go hide in the closet because there was a ballistic missile alert. For some reason I was not freaking out about it and held hope for a bit. That hope worked because one of my family friends told us it was a false alarm and some new guy accidentally set off the alarm (is what i was told) I then went back to playing minecraft.
I slept through it and woke up confused to a bunch of panicked text messages about the missile warning from my friends
a family freind of ours who was in the milatary was teaching a biking class in his neighborhood hood, they all got the alerts. He said "nah, they'd call me first thing if it where real" and they kept biking
My friend and her two younger sisters were over at my house because we were volunteering somewhere that afternoon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. We all packed into a closet while my friends FaceTimed their mom, sobbing and saying goodbye. After it was over, we went on to volunteer at the event like nothing happened. It was surreal, walking around like we didn't think we were going to die that morning.
I remember my family waking up and rushing out the door to a bomb shelter. There were cop cars speeding, people freaking out. I wasn’t sure what to do so I kept joking around even while my mom was crying. It was rough. But it was oddly easy to accept being near death after the panic wore off.
I woke up and it looked too sus. I checked twitter and the radio to only find live weather reports. Uncle was doing his casual Saturday morning bike ride outside. Only when my dorm neighbors started scream crying and I saw crowds rush towards the bomb shelters, it settled in. I went ‘whelp’ and thought it would be fine to watch from my balcony, but my parents insisted they pick me up on their way back home. The false alarm notice came when we were still on the road.
I was there when this happened. I was on Oahu for some military training and I remember hearing all these alarms and I was like what is going on and everyone is saying that there was a missile coming. So I go back to my ship to find out what the hell is going on and if we were going to do anything. Then within about 15 minutes they told us that it was a false alarm but the crazy thing is I thought we had passed on the message to the people of Hawaii but I guess another half hour passed and they were still in panic. 🤦♂️
grab a life jacket and a boat eperb (or some sort of tracker i could get my hands on) and start swimming. I might make it out of the thermal blast radius (depending on the nuke you got plenty of time honestly) but if not i aint going out because some atoms had a divorce
This is the first I've even heard there was a scare, I swear if a bomb landed near me I wouldn't know until it already happened.
Lets say if I had 1 hour with no friends in hawaii. I would get my end of the world playlist and have one last party in the streets
Bruh that time was scary asf
I was in the middle of making my kids some breakfast while on Hickam AFB when the alert happened, I saw it on my phone and paused for a moment, then walked over and kissed each of my kids on the forehead before bringing their food to the table. I sat down with them and said “I love you guys so much.” Then I pretended everything was okay until the follow on message came out.
I later reflected on it realizing that I knew if a nuke hit Hawaii, and I was on a military base, I was completely fucked no matter what I did, so I knew it was a waste of effort to panic and that I should spend my last moments loving my kids and not letting them spend their last moments in fear. I learned that day that I am not afraid of death.
Oh man this was a surreal experience. I was asleep when the missle alert woke me up. My mom called and we told each other to take care. I guess we both just accepted that nothing can be done so we just accepted our fates in good spirits. I was still sleepy at the time, so I thought If I'm going to die, I might as well die in my sleep.
Trash Taste documentary on the false missile alert?
I woke up to my mom freaking out about the missile alert and that day I was supposed to go driving with friends. so,I said my goodbyes to my parents and went up the mountain to go drift LOL
It was the weekend so I woke up late MISSING EVERYTHING and it’s probably really shallow to say that I was lowkey bummed out I missed it. I WASNT THERE BUT I WAS ALSO THERE BUT ASLEEP
I went back to sleep when I got the alert
I just rolled over and went back to sleep, no point worrying over it
I was asleep and my phone had been on silent, though I woke up to the forced notification/alert. Instead of reading the alert, I got annoyed, turned off my phone without looking at it, and proceeded to spend my day off sleeping in.
When I got out of bed in the afternoon, I turned on my phone and saw dozens of missed texts, DMs and calls. All my friends and family went thru the 5 stages of grief without me. 10/10 would do again
if i'm close enough, go to family
if not, call everyone
i had a graveyard shift the night before so I was asleep. missed every alarm, text, and phonecall. woke up like "wtf happened?" LMAO....
I recall a thread where a guy mentions that he was gonna go out fucking. And his sister was thinking of the same thing. There was presumably no time to look around for other ppl that would agree to this proposition. So they just went fuck it and ploughed each other like no tomorrow.
Then it settles in that they weren't gonna die. And they've been awkward ever since.
Yeah I saw that 4chan thread too
My mom had woken me up in a panic telling me to pack anything of use, the fear and panic in her eyes was the first time I’ve seen anything in her eyes and I packed as quickly as I can go. Leaving out of my neighborhood my mom drove as quickly as possible, I didn’t know where we were going to go I didn’t know what we were going to do. I just slowly came to the conclusion if this is how I’m going to go I’m happy I’ll be with my mom atleast. Thankfully it was fake and we grabbed Starbucks and just spent time together reflecting.
Not sure what happened to the video I saw of that incident, I think I saw a video where there were looting, but majority of it were people just staying in the hotel and just accepting their fates and conversing with others, I think there was a guy who "bought" something from the convenience store and paid at the counter despite being unattended.
I grew up in Hawaii and was in high school at the time this happened. I was actually asleep and home alone. My mom and sister were out and decided not to wake me. It’s kind of crazy because I only woke up after it was all over. I remember how shaken my friends and school were at the time though.
My sister said that she didn’t tell me because she didn’t want me to panic and especially panic alone. I don’t think I would have handled it, so maybe it was a good call.
I was sleeping when the Hawaii nuclear bomb alarm happened. Nobody bothered to wake me up that morning. If it was a real threat, I likely would have been vaporized in my sleep.
I was on my honeymoon with my wife at a resort. I had actually thought about that situation before going on that trip, and I immediately went to the front desk and asked what was the plan to get to the nearest shelter. They just shrugged and said there were no nuclear shelters anywhere.
After that we huddled together in a hallway without any windows on the first floor, best we could do really.
After that false alert there were fighter wing exercises from Pearl Harbor every other day for the rest of our trip.
Now, call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think there was a missile that was shot down by the military or fell short of its target. I think we were just told it was a mistake, accidentally typing in all caps that a ballistic missile was in bound and accidentally saying it wasn’t a drill, all to prevent WWIII. If that was the case, probably the smartest thing the government could have done. There would be a lot of warmongering otherwise.