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Government Rescue Failures
00:02:22
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| What happened during these fires and the devastation that followed was such a tragedy? | |
| Why does this show the importance of being prepared? | |
| Well, it shows the importance of being prepared. | |
| Number one, if you expect the government to save you when something bad happens, which a lot of people think, oh, if there's something really, really bad that happens, the government's going to come in and rescue us. | |
| First of all, everything that government did in Hawaii turned out badly, made things even worse. | |
| I mean, utter incompetence or the alternative, if it wasn't incompetence, the alternative is far, far worse. | |
| So, but everything the government did in Hawaii was wrong, was bad, was a bad decision. | |
| So, that's people need to understand that. | |
| Number one, number two, once the government comes in, well, the federal government's just giving them a one-time payment of $700. | |
| What is that going to do? | |
| These days, that's like two trips to the grocery store. | |
| But then the government came in. | |
| Now, Pastor Jim, originally the government came in and they surrounded the community and they kept out a lot of the private help. | |
| A lot of private people, local residents, wanted to come in with food and supplies and whatever, generators. | |
| They were trying to bring that stuff in to help the people. | |
| They were kept out. | |
| They're saying, keep away. | |
| You're not allowed in. | |
| Okay. | |
| So the government comes in with food and water and whatever. | |
| But then there were multiple reports of people getting sick from the water the government was getting them. | |
| Not just sick, but violently ill from the water that the government brought in. | |
| So that was real sketchy too. | |
| So, you know, but that was government coming in. | |
| So what this shows is that, number one, when something bad happens, use your common sense. | |
| Number one, those that use common sense and didn't wait behind the barricade saved their lives. | |
| Number two, don't believe that the government's going to save you because the government's not going to save you. | |
| Number three, you want to be prepared ahead of time for any type of disasters or emergencies. | |
| And then beyond that, even if you're prepared where you are, at some point where you are, you may not be able to stay there. | |
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Be Ready to Go
00:00:19
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| It may become untenable for you to stay. | |
| So you've got to be ready to go at a moment's notice, as the people in Lahaina found out. | |
| You've got to be able to have your go bag. | |
| You've got to be ready to go, get out and leave and have your important papers ready. | |
| Have your go bag ready to go, ready to get in a vehicle, get out of there. | |