This reminds me of an incident in Sweden a couple of years ago. We test our disaster alarms on a known schedule. And just a couple of years ago, during the pea

This reminds me of an incident in Sweden a couple of years ago. We test our disaster alarms on a known schedule. And just a couple of years ago, during the peak vacation time in the summer, the alarm went off, off schedule. This made the entire country panic. Were we being attacked? The agency that is supposed to let people know through the public channels like tv, radio etc were silent. They were themselves on vacation probably. The websites and apps they've setup were ridiculously underpowered and were basically DDOS'ed by the spike in traffic they were getting. News outlets were also struggling, but did way better. The only thing that withstood the sudden burst in traffic without a hitch was facebook and twitter. The official statement i think was that the alarm was triggered by accident (never happened before, i think). But goes to show how badly our emergency response is setup.