Hawaii classic or dud

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The moment the EAS alert interrupted Hawaiian TV is terrifying pic.twitter.com/pVwpCBeRgD

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 13, 2018

emergency management officially tweeted it was a false alarm 13 mins after the orig alert; that's when i calmed down, to be freaked out a while later by the second one (which still began EMERGENCY ALERT: EXTREME lol)

the 'THIS IS NOT A DRILL' part seemed a little theatrical, would they actually include that if it WASNT A DRILL

Saw Gabbard’s tweet shortly after some initial ones reporting the alert, so mostly I’ve been just looking at responses. Unsurprising that there’s no consensus as to what was the cause even from officials. I’d give money to know if Trump was even alerted at all.

From here in SF it was an interesting psychological moment — I only saw a couple of tweets from one source RT’d into my feed, from a Buzzfeed reporter based there, and I basically assumed if it was a glitch or hack. Checked both the CNN and Honolulu Star-Advertiser pages and feeds: nothing. A few minutes later another RT with an alert was in my feed, but then Gabbard’s tweet was posted. So in the end at most I thought “Huh” rather than assuming it was all going down.

wat if alert on gorila chanmel

Would make sense.

a friend tells me her co-worker had already fled work to "check on [his] ex-girlfriend" when the second message came

high point for me was when my dad entered the room holding up a little radio, just like group captain mandrake. it was playing won't get fooled again

jake shimabukuro from stage tonight: "...so we continued swimming"

jeez

That's some fireworks over there.

I have a friend about ten minutes from the lava line (?) who is OK so far, but yikes

i'm in town and thus plenty safe; guiltily rly enjoyed the 10/10 sunrise this morning. my thoughts to yr friend sleeve!

from a local perspective what's freaking me out isn't the eruption but all these quakes. nothing a californian would change the subject for i'm sure (well unless he had reason to worry pressurized molten rock might burst from underneath his subdivision), but pretty unusual here. you sure don't feel in control, huh.

Nope, always a little disorienting.

i've been wondering myself if plates shifting over there can disturb plates over here

6.9 around an hour ago

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/us/kilauea-volcano-hawaii-earthquakes/index.html

"It has now become unnerving," resident Carol Shepard told KHON.

otm

6.9 around an hour ago

It was felt in Honolulu, ~250 miles away!

I can only remember this volcano's name because it sounds like killer whale :-/

hang in there

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LIB3445AQMZFNDBWTBVTM6FQ3Q.jpg

lost in a hawaiian wilderness of pain

whoops

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LIB3445AQMZFNDBWTBVTM6FQ3Q.jpg

You shouldn't be smoking outside.

Holy crap. I didn't realize they felt it in Oahu. This with the false missile alert and the floods. Ugh.

called in sick to work yesterday, arrived today to find that the backup projectionist had not seen the note (addressed to me) warning me to remove the ad slide for our upcoming "comedy ERUPTION!" event, thus causing complaints at last night's movie-- which was the death of stalin, so i'm not rly sure i'm willing to take the offended seriously.

Are you the person that used to work at Turtle Bay?

We had at very close 5.1 a couple of days ago. It was loud. I have been in an 8 point something before. These things suck even knowing to expect them or to wake up to shaking in the middle of the night.

nah we've had/still have a few hawaii-based ilxors (was that gr80?)-- i just tech at a theatre in hilo.

and yeah standards are low here but notgonnalie that 6.9 was scary.

not at all nice.

insane:
https://jalopnik.com/watch-lava-from-the-kilauea-volcano-swallow-a-ford-must-1825822759

saw that this morning, it just eats right through it

Terrifying yet gorgeous all the same.

Is that R2D2, just waiting there, watching his car burn?

It's a p nice touch, that.

http://www.scifimoviezone.com/imagestarwars/starwars5script764.jpg

okay what is it about this thread that makes me do that

o well shouldn't have hotlinked anyway.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180507223102-cm-101-hawaii-volcano-0507-exlarge-169.jpg

I think I found the guy who owned the R2D2

he's doing that thing eleven does with her hands

it's true, she does do that a lot

new thread idea

Other Hawaii news: This is the cloudiest year I have ever seen here and Honolulu feels like I'm living in a warmer Minneapolis (which is overcast all the time). Not complaining, I love this weather.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/how-to-look-at-hawaiis-lava/559988/

USGS alert increased from orange to red?

We no sked 'em

couldn't find the right screencap of the construction foreman in majora's mask: "cowards! let it fall!"

after that plume yesterday even the town smells like sulfur

Kilauea is erupting:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-eruption-update-today-2018-05-17-live-stream-updates/

at this point i think we'd prefer a big trad eruption at halemaumau to these constant random explosions elsewhere in the system / constant subliminal earthquakes / constant air degradation / constant people wanting to tell you exactly how high the apocalyptic wave would be if the east rift zone went. taking these last two big ash plumes as a good sign? the mountain seems to need to clear its throat. nb i don't know anything about anything.

i keep thinking whoever i'm with farted

They may have though