Imagine waking up in beautiful Hawaii, turning on the tube to catch a little college hoops action only to read a crawler stating the U.S. Pacific Command had detected a missile threat to the state.
Hawaiians watching morning sports treated to terrifying "THIS IS NOT A DRILL" emergency alert" https://t.co/kSSs4Udini pic.twitter.com/oJknMib0wB
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) January 13, 2018
That's exactly what happened this morning in what was thankfully a false alarm.
Still, it took 38 minutes before an official notification emerged of the false alert in what had to be a scary time for our friends way out west.
Source: @Deadspin
