What the Hawaii missile alert was like for us and for our governor.
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We’re at Hilton Garden Inn and we saw many boats traveling away from the island. Some people were running on the streets. The hotel had a loudspeaker within the hotel saying to stay in our rooms. My wife and I were sending our “just in case” goodbye and I love you texts to our loved ones. I was scouring Twitter for updates and didn’t find anything significant until Tulsi Gabbard tweeted out information that relived us. It was interesting elevator ride down with random guests at the hotel.
I had just finished a walk on Kaanapali Beach and arrived back at the condo. The wife called and told me about the attack. I said do you think little Kim would sacrifice his country to take out Honolulu. She was herded into the basement of the Hyatt.
Aloha BOH Bro’s
Are you ready for this on January 10th the FAA briefly halted some U.S. West Coast flights around time of N.Korea hyper sonic missile launch.
The ground stop occurred around 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time and lasted only 15 minutes.
I had just arrived on the Big Island the day before to begin a 3-week stay with my best friend, Carol. The morning of this, I was just sitting down on her lanai, cup of coffee in hand, looking at the gorgeous ocean and this notice popped up on my phone, bright red, and an obnoxious noise. Needless to say, I panicked. I immediately sent texts to my family on the mainland, told them I loved them. And then waited … And then we heard that Ige forgot his Twitter password … @#!%$ Very scary!!
We were vacationing at Sugar Beach resort by Kihei with our 2 small children. It was surreal families were going down to the beach to wait & watch. We had plans to drive the road to Hana that day, there was barely any traffic.
We had just gotten in the car to go down the hill to Hanalei Bay. I looked at my husband and said, “I don’t even know what to do with that” We went back to the condo of course. A couple days before, we felt big booms and the condo shook. Not sure it was a false alarm. I still have the alert from my phone. On the radio bulletin they said this is not a drill! The naval commander has detected an incoming missile, you have x amount of minuets to seek shelter. Thanks for sharing this reminder.
Hi Lisa.
Thanks. We appreciate you sharing your experience.
Aloha.
We were on the North Shore at Pale Ke Kua, sipping Kauai coffee on the lanai when both our phones went off indicating the missile alert. We both stared at our phones in disbelief for perhaps thirty seconds.
We looked around and noticed it was a perfectly peaceful morning. No one was running screaming or anything.
After a bit we said to ourselves: “Well, if this is the end, there is no better place to experience it than on Kauai sipping Kauai coffee on a beautiful day in paradise”.
I was on the KBC north end grassy beach. Only one around was a local woman who came over and asked if I knew about the missile alert. Her son in South Africa had just texted her. I looked around. I was indeed the only one on the beach. Security hadn’t seen me when they rousted everyone from their lounges. I started to leave when she put her arm around me and said “let’s stay and pray”! Trying not to be rude, I left! No one there. I tried to get Kukui off his perch – he wasn’t going to die alone!
Aloha
My husband and I were vacationing on Molokai when we received an emergency alert on our cell phones
What a frightening experiance that was! We didn’t know if we should contact our family or head for the hills. We chose the later. All’s well that ends well, we had a wonderful time in spite of the mishap.
We had two small children in the closet, with pillows and blankets, and our host nailed a huge sheet of plywood over the closet opening. We filled the sink and bathtubs with water. We put a big mattress over the plywood in front of the closet. We were all fairly calm until we got the message that it was a false alert / alarm. We were pretty shook up for the rest of the day and more, that’s for sure.