The media outside Hawaii really brushed it under the rug very quickly, which I've seen a lot of people claim was suspicious.
Think about it from a psy-op perspective. If you're trying to wake-up a nation and trigger a 'great awakening' and you are going to do something as radical as to create a movie where there is a literal the-ski-is-falling/'precepice' moment being shown to the public, one where the EBS plays a DEFCON1 scenario, you're not just going to do that without conducting a localized simulation (like a localized ebs defcon moment in Hawaii) to gauge the public's reaction, see what sort of chaos arises so they can better plan for the real thing.
Just a theory that popped-into my head :)
I arrived in Kona just after the scare was winding down. I went to a restaurant on arrival and the staff was off of their game bad and the service was not what I expected from the restaurant I had visited on prior trips to the big island. The host came to check on us as we neared the end of our meal. I mentioned that I had not received anything to drink and that our order was missing two additional items. She insisted on comping the meal. But that I should understand that my waitress had spent time this day deciding which one of her children she would spend the final moments of their lives with. Man I felt foolish for even saying anything.So I gave the waitress the total amount of the ticket plus the tip . I have wondered ever since then about this woman and her Sophie’s choice.
Jeez what a mind fuck that is