This wasn’t a moment where I actually got injured but it was a moment where I truly thought I was going to die. My husband and I had just gotten married and I moved to Oahu, HI in at the end of December 2017, and i had been there for 2 or so weeks. It was now January 2018. I had just woken up and I was on my phone when I got the Emergency Alert “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL”. I felt a wave of panic wash over me and I shook my husband awake, who checked his phone and started calling people at his command (military) to see what was going on. I called my dad to tell him about the alert (he is retired Air Force) to see if he knew what it was about. My best friend was visiting my parents house for breakfast when I called so I was on the phone with them absolutely panicking and collecting our important documents, filling the bathtub and empty jugs with water, and throwing blankets and food into the bathroom. My mom and best friend were still on the phone with me praying and giving me ideas on what to do. My dad was calling people in the Air Force to find out what was going on, and my husband was downstairs talking to our landlord. Suddenly the phone call dropped while I was basically telling them I loved them and goodbye (so many people on the island were calling loved ones) and I thought that meant the missile was getting close and this was the end. Overall this happened over a period of about 10 minutes. I was able to call my parents back and then found out from my dad that it was some kind of mistake and that a missile was not inbound. Turns out someone had pressed the button that sent out the alert on mistake. My husband came back into our apartment and had found out about the same time from our landlord that we were safe. He said our landlord, who was a really nice older Hawaiian guy was super chill, not panicking and was just like “Well if it was real we were all going to die anyways and there wouldn’t be anything we could do about it.”. Most people on the island (including myself) did not share his realistic and calm attitude, the traffic around the island was completely standstill, people were lowering their kids into the storm drains to save them, even some celebrities who were on island at the time (I think Jim Carrey) were tweeting goodbyes or something. It was a really strange moment to think “I’m going to die. I just got married, I just rescued a dog (like a week earlier), I just moved to Hawaii and I’m going to die without doing so many things I wanted to do. At least I can say goodbye to my parents and best friend, and at least I can die with my husband and my new dog. At least I can die with love.” Feeling like you’re going to die and having to accept it was weird and scary. I just prayed until I found out we were safe. The rest of the day felt weird too, it was a beautiful day and I just kept thinking about how grateful i was to be alive. This was really long but anyways, not really a moment where I was injured but I definitely thought we were going to die.

TLDR: I thought we were going to be killed by a missile but someone pushed the “inbound missile seek shelter this is not a drill” alert button by mistake