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hi ema does operate on a shoestring budget. Been asking the leg for years for more funds to improve things like their software, better equipment, etc - always denied. So in actuality, whos fault is it that they dont have the funds necessary to buy, develop, or contract out a competent software, paving the way for such an incident to occur? So if it ends up that they're finally allocated some money to better equip hawaii for natural disasters, that's probably a good thing. Better preparations for ballistic missile will positively affect readiness in all areas.
Leadership is lacking all around... "someone", whether it be the administrator, #2, #3, #4 in command, the governor, a senator, ANYONE should have issued the order to send a correction text immediately, regulations or perceived regulations be damned. Whatever method was used to communicate the alert should be cancelled using that method immediately, that is common sense. If they immediately issued a correcting text, this would be a much smaller incident. Maybe FEMA would have slapped the back of hi ema's wrists and said "bad boy you didn't follow regulations", but who fucking cares? All these idiots are doing is covering their own asses and grandstanding because its an election year. Look for a lot more fingerpointing and other BS to come. BUT this is hawaii, and incompetence and stupidity is the status quo.
Dear Representative Schatz.
As you are assigned to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications Technology, Innovation, and the Internet which "includes telephones, cell phones, the Internet, commercial and noncommercial television, cable, satellite broadcast, satellite communications, wireline and wireless broadband, radio, consumer electronic equipment associated with such services, and public safety communications." were you not responsible to make sure ALL of Hawaii residents be warned of an impending missile strike on our homeland ?
Or better yet, to be sure the message went out to all that it was a false alarm immediately?
Your position on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies which includes "protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services" is also an apparent failure as there was no protection available nor any " essential human services" provided during the 38 minutes of panic and chaos.
To not accept any blame in this fiasco and to point fingers at others is ludicrous. You state that we should remove the HI EMS warning system and start anew because we already have another functioning system. I assume that you are referring to the warning sirens which I haven't seen work with even close to 100% efficiency in years.
In closing, find you just as guilty as the employee who inadvertently "pushed the button" for the panic in Hawaii January 13, 2018.