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Originally Posted by NobodyHere
So the problem was caused by a guy selecting "missile alert" from a drop down menu instead of "test missile alert".
How wonder how much he gets paid.
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Chances are the simulation for testing the missile alert drill is nearly identical to the actual real one apart from one step ... that is fairly sensible as it needs to follow it to ensure that they're doing things right ... as such it sounds like whatever 'selection' was meant to mean its a 'test' wasn't set correctly ... but I could see how it could happen.
(Personally I'd have thought they'd have run these tests wholly 'offline' - ie. take down your SMS messaging connections etc. before running them to avoid risking this sort of thing, but I understand that could be problematic - after all what happens is the real thing happened mid-test?)