I am taking images but have been too busy to post. I need to find my submissions for the 2018 PDML Annual first!
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed but it seems to have silenced his K5IIs. > > Alan C > > -----Original Message----- From: Chris Mitchell > Sent: 18 January, 2018 5:57 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: A bit of excitement yesterday > > > That's the best response to this cock-up that I've heard. Pragmatism at its > finest. Well done Dan! > > Chris > > On 14 January 2018 at 19:09, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We are at the beginning of our annual sojourn on Maui. >> >> Yesterday, at a little after 8:00 AM, we were having breakfast at a lovely >> beachfront restaurant All of a sudden my phone started to scream, as did >> those of my wife, my son and all the other patrons in the restaurant. >> Picking up my phone, I read: "Emergency alert -- BALLISTIC MISSILE >> THREAT >> INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." >> >> I looked at it a few times, looked around the room at the other patrons, >> shrugged and went back to my breakfast. I mean, if it was real, what >> could >> one do? go to the basement, so the building could collapse on me? Head >> up >> the mountain, where I would be more exposed to blast and radiation from an >> explosion at Pearl Harbor? Not much would help. After all, if one is to >> die, why not do it in paradise with a glass of fresh guava juice and Eggs >> Benedict? >> >> All of the other patrons in the restaurant -- probably mostly Canadians -- >> also shrugged, put their phones down, and continued with breakfast. >> >> It took 38 minutes for the "authorities" to issue a retraction through the >> emergency system. My son was able to find a couple of reliable tweets >> stating it was a false alarm within about 10 minutes, but still, the delay >> was inexcusable. >> >> Elsewhere in Hawaii, there was real panic. In Honolulu, hospital patients >> were moved from their beds to the basement. tourists panicked on Waikiki. >> Children were in tears. The biggest problem is that, if there ever is a >> real alert, who would believe it. >> >> An hour after the event, CNN was covering nothing else. The mistake >> appears to have been human error, at the level of the state emergency >> center in the crater of Diamond Head, and even the senior military on >> Hawaii (who would be the first to know of a real attack) were caught by >> surprise and confused. >> >> On Maui, most were more concerned with the high surf warnings than the >> ballistic missile warning. >> >> A bit of excitement in the midst of the serenity of paradise. >> >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
