This morning, I was livestreaming, and the livestream caught my real-time reaction to the false alert about the ballistic missile in Hawaii.

My reaction was featured on several news sources tonight.

I woke up at 5am on a Saturday (this morning) and started livestreaming early in the morning on Periscope. At 8:08am, I received the alert in the middle of my broadcast.

For all of the people who shared the 38 minutes of chaos in Hawaii before we confirmed that it was indeed a false alarm, I am so grateful that we are all fine.

After meeting with a group of incredible people tonight, I realized that many of us are still experiencing the after effects of setting the people of Hawaii in a state of panic.

For those of you who were not in the state of Hawaii at the time or simply do not understand the fact that many of us thought we were going to die, I hope that empathy finds you the next time a mass group of people are made to believe that they could all die within half an hour.

I am clearly no longer in a state of panic. However, I feel that it is unfair to belittle my experience as well as the experience of those who truly had a traumatic experience this morning.

Thank you for the support, everyone.