evacuate Connecticut immidiatel! oh, nevermind

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-02-01 06:57pm

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4151981/detail.html

Someone at the Connecticut State Emergency Management Agency "pressed the wrong button" and ordered the evacuation of the entire state today. Oops!

dr. what · Post by **dr. what** » 2005-02-01 07:07pm

State police said they received no calls related to the erroneous alert.

Man---talk about totally blase residents.....

Honey--the tv just said that we had to evacuate the whole state.
That's nice -dear--what's for dinner?

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2005-02-01 08:05pm

dr. what wrote: Man---talk about totally blase residents.....

Or maybe they were waiting for everybody else to leave so they could go looting.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-02-01 08:09pm

Here in Georgia, there's two options...

A.) Hie down to the church and offer oblation for the tribulation to come, or

B.) go "Honey, what's that about evacuating the state? Ah well, screw the hunting regulations then. Hand me that there shotgun, then..."

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2005-02-01 08:12pm

Ha, we'd never abandon our state. The Long Islanders and Mass-holes would come in and stink up the place.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2005-02-01 08:14pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:Ha, we'd never abandon our state. The Long Islanders and Mass-holes would come in and stink up the place.

Plus, we're the hell would we evacuate to?

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-02-01 08:15pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote:Ha, we'd never abandon our state. The Long Islanders and Mass-holes would come in and stink up the place.
Plus, we're the hell would we evacuate to?

*pumps my 12-gauge

Rhode Island is full.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-02-01 08:23pm

So there's just one big button that says "Evacuate"? I would think it would be like launching a nuke, with special keys and the like.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-02-01 08:27pm

Gandalf wrote:So there's just one big button that says "Evacuate"? I would think it would be like launching a nuke, with special keys and the like.

every state emergency management agency has acess to the emergency broadcast system. the system has the ability to immidiately interrupt programming on television and radio as well as send messages to computerized road signs. They were supposed to perform a test to the system, and instead issued an automated evacuation order.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-02-01 08:30pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Gandalf wrote:So there's just one big button that says "Evacuate"? I would think it would be like launching a nuke, with special keys and the like.
every state emergency management agency has acess to the emergency broadcast system. the system has the ability to immidiately interrupt programming on television and radio as well as send messages to computerized road signs. They were supposed to perform a test to the system, and instead issued an automated evacuation order.

Yep. As cockups go, this was a good one.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2005-02-01 09:28pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote:Ha, we'd never abandon our state. The Long Islanders and Mass-holes would come in and stink up the place.
Plus, we're the hell would we evacuate to?
*pumps my 12-gauge

Rhode Island is full.

Dude, what did I tell you about doing that in public?

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2005-02-01 09:51pm

what disaster short of an alien/borg/cyclon attack would cause a state, I mean an ENTIRE state to have to be evacuated.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2005-02-01 09:56pm

Dennis Toy wrote:what disaster short of an alien/borg/cyclon attack would cause a state, I mean an ENTIRE state to have to be evacuated.

Volcano... Tsunami, really bad huriccaine... you know, all the things that never happen in Connecticut

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2005-02-01 10:04pm

or maybew a nuclear bomb.

Post by **Kuja** » 2005-02-01 10:41pm

Dennis Toy wrote:or maybew a nuclear bomb.

*heard in the vicinity of Kuja's residence*

"Check them visually? But that could take hours!"

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2005-02-01 10:42pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote:Ha, we'd never abandon our state. The Long Islanders and Mass-holes would come in and stink up the place.
Plus, we're the hell would we evacuate to?

How about Quebec,we need more people for the next PQs referendum so when 75 or 90% says *We won't seperate,that will shut them up for good

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2005-02-01 11:02pm

Quebec needs to seceed, so the United American/Canadian Empire can conquer it!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-02-01 11:08pm

Dennis Toy wrote:what disaster short of an alien/borg/cyclon attack would cause a state, I mean an ENTIRE state to have to be evacuated.

Connecticut isn't very big and isn't very far above sea level. Still, it would take a major catastrophe to require the entire population to leave. Nuclear meltdown, asteroid coming down in the Atlantic, incoming nuclear attack are the only three I can think of.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2005-02-01 11:08pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:Ha, we'd never abandon our state. The Long Islanders and Mass-holes would come in and stink up the place.

Please, now, why would we come down to a cold, dead state like CT? The only reason I'm here is school. After that, I'm outta here!

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-02-02 01:56am

I recommend Jeff Davis county over in Texas. Not many people there anyways.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-02-02 03:28am

Montcalm wrote:How about Quebec,we need more people for the next PQs referendum so when 75 or 90% says *We won't seperate,that will shut them up for good

For all the ribbing Quebec recieves, I don't understand why the punchline isn't for Quebec to succeed in seceding.