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Gene Park @GenePark
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LOOK AT THIS STUPID LONG GAP BETWEEN "Hey nuclear missile incoming" vs "Sorry we screwed up." @Hawaii_EMA
38 MINUTES!? They KNOW a missile could reach Hawaii in 20 minutes and yet they took 38 minutes to tell everyone it's a false alarm!?
My friend, a mother: "I had a full blown panic attack and was calling family telling them goodbye."
Another friend, also a mom: "Can we just raise our children in peace?"
Another resident: "called my wife and son, who are both still in Japan. Telling them goodbye and how much I love them."
My friend in Hawaii got the alert and had to quickly choose between which members of his family he would spend his last moments on Earth with because they were ALL too far apart from each other. He had to make the difficult choice of going immediately to his youngest children.
My friend, Noah Tom, explains in fuller detail what went through his mind at the moment described above washingtonpost.com/news/postevery…
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