WILMINGTON, Del. — Researchers studying the reaction of Hawaii’s residents after the false missile alert say there was far less panic than they anticipated.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Researchers studying the reaction of Hawaii’s residents after the false missile alert say there was far less panic than they anticipated.
University of Delaware researchers said they are not reconstructing a scene from a disaster film, the News Journal in Wilmington reported Saturday . People were not running in a “blind panic.”
Jennifer Trivedi, a researcher with the school’s Disaster Research Center, said more people than she expected searched elsewhere to confirm the alert, including social media. At the same time, she said people were unsure of where to go. Many didn’t know where shelters were or if there were any.
Authorities said last month’s alert was sent by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency after an employee mistakenly believed an attack was imminent. Researchers interviewed more than 80 residents and tourists.
Well, there’s a simple explanation for that non-reaction. I’m sure that most people, like me, are aware that the local government is so routinely incompetent, that the chances were near 100% that it was some kind of stupid mistake. And it was. So we ignored it.
Thank goodness the University of Delaware is on the ball interviewed 80 people and after that concluded no big ting as they say here. That said you can’t excuse incompetence. Give’m a raise again!!
The better question is…. “Researchers studying the reaction of Hawaii’s residents after the false missile alert say there was far less panic than they anticipated” WHAT THE HELL DOES ANTICIPATED infer? Were we some sort of planned study for the Univ of Delaware? Or is this a poor selection of words?
I think if the tsunami sirens had been going off people might have thought differently.
Dude they work? I can not hear them up by my house and I am only 700″ up?
They work on test day but not during emergencies..