I have mixed feelings about the false alarm in Hawaii yesterday. I’ve worked in that “type” of critical control rm/command center environment for the last 30 or so years. My industry has a mutual enemy whose name is Murphy. I know him well. A couple of things. Testing of this nature should always be treated as live. Always. The fact that they didn’t have a 2 person failsafe is just what it is. A single point of failure, Murphy saw an opening and grabbed the operators balls.

Shit happens. It’ll be fixed. Shit wasn’t like this 13mos. ago.

I do have this concern. Management I think showed 100% transparency on the issue during the press conference, The head guy took responsibility for his team and their actions. I commend him for that. They are now working to remediate and harden their procedures so this does not happen again. Today the media and Pols got their blood and this guy was fired. OK, I get that as well. At the same time Hawaii has shot itself in the foot in the same motion. Administrator Vern Miyagi has vast Tsunami and volcanism emergency experience that’s headed for the door. Shit happens, some worse than others. I just hate to see all of us lose that type if experience and integrity.