Emergency Broadcasting Test Mistakenly Calls For Connecticut Evacuation

[matcom]

<snip>

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Despite what residents may have seen on television, the state of Connecticut was not ordered evacuated Tuesday.

State emergency management officials believe someone pressed the wrong button, and instead of running a test of the emergency alert system, midday television viewers and radio listeners were told that the state was being evacuated.

"There is absolutely no evacuation or state emergency," said Kerry Flaherty, of the Office of Emergency Management. "It was an erroneous message."

The department was investigating how the alert was sent. Officials said it is manually released to broadcasters.

The error prompted Gov. M. Jodi Rell to issue a statement reassuring residents.

"We are looking into the circumstances and will take every step necessary to make certain this type of problem does not reoccur in the future," she said.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4152096/detail.html

[sniffa]

1. residents who heeded the warning

were gratefuL. :P

[SarahB]

2. I missed that one.

Not having anything but Noggin and PBS on TV during the day has its perks at times. :D

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Thank God ChavezSpeakstheTruth didn't hear it.

He may have come HERE.

That's all I need -- another fuckin' hippy.

[DS1]

4. So, did the state collectively shit its pants or not?

(punny) :eyes:

[Bluebear]

5. It crapped Mystic-by-the-sea right into the ocean.

It's part of Rhode Island now. Really!

[LynneSin]

6. Connecticut is going to invade Massachusetts

My money is on the Bay State

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Have you ever been to Hartford?

Connecticut can kick Massachusetts' ass any damn day.

[NewJeffCT]

8. nah

Springfield is a quagmire waiting to happen...

;)

[Renew Deal]

19. Then again, CT has a submarine base.

:nuke:

[NewJeffCT]

20. We'd have to move fast

The Pentagon & White House are doing their best to run Sikorsky into the ground - canceling the Comanche helicopter and now outsourcing the presidential helicopter.

No more choppers for us if that happens.

[Renew Deal]

18. Boston could take care of Connecticut on it's own.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I must have missed this one

I actually don't know anybody who heard it - and my mom's flight came into Bradley Airport right around 2:00 yesterday.

[SarahB]

10. I think you were in the Reminder again.

I saw a thing yesterday and I'm thinking "that has to be NewJeffCT". :D

[NewJeffCT]

12. I put one in there this week again

Somebody had criticized working wives a few weeks back and said how her life was better since she quit her job & stayed home with her 5 kids. I'm fine with her decision to do that, but I got upset when she criticized other working wives for materialism & greed. And, I'm certainly not going to tell my daughter she can't grow up to be just about anything she wants (I think playing Center for the LA Lakers is out of the question...)

[SarahB]

13. That was the one.

Most people need two incomes to survive. We lived on one income for many years and I was lucky he made enough for me to do that (well budgeted of course). A lot of it had more to do with his erratic work schedule for so many years and his own unwillingness to be flexible enough for me to pursue my goals than any mad desire to be a full-time homemaker (I would have been ok with working part-time as I did for a number of years, but at home full-time was often maddening in all honesty). Part of why I'm ending the marriage is his continual somewhat misogynistic attitudes regarding my career aspirations as somehow less-valid than his. He says it's not the case, but words and actions have been very different. I would have seen it and made different decisions if I were a bit older and more secure with myself when we first got together, but I was so young, I guess I just let his goals take over everything for a long time.

Fortunately, I'm still young enough that with a little extra effort (and in a field where it's possible), I'll be caught up in a few more years. It's tedious though in all honesty to be a woman with a brain trying to fit in with the majority of the SAHM world (around here anyway).

[NewJeffCT]

14. SAHM?

and, I'm sure you'll do well.

[SarahB]

15. stay at home mom

Thanks. I tend to get wordy and rather rambling on this subject matter, but suffice it to say, certain still all too pervasive attitudes in our culture can piss me off at times. :)

[NewJeffCT]

16. Actually

I heard somewhere recently that 2 income families are the norm unless you are among the rich (the upper 1 or 2%) or the poor, where it would be cheaper to stay home rather than pay for daycare. The story was in the context that there SAHMs were now more common among those upper 1 or 2%.

Most in between families have 2 wage earners out of necessity...

[NewJeffCT]

17. and...

I'm disappointed they didn't run any of my fact-based responses on the pseudo crisis in Social Security...

some liberal bias, eh?

[Sweet Freedom]

11. So which is scarier

that the the wrong warning was issued, or that no one heard it? Either way, the system didn't work.