Week 2: days 8 to 14

Goal: sustain what you have and connect with the help that is starting to arrive. By day 14 your base water reserve (14 gal per person) and food run out: either services return, or you resupply, or you relocate temporarily.

1. Contact your insurance if there is damage, even if you can't repair it yet. Take photos and video before cleaning up or throwing anything away.
2. Find out about aid: distribution centers, shelters, recovery centers, and whether there's a federal disaster declaration for your county.
3. Prevent illness: no floodwater on open skin; mold as soon as it appears; doubtful food in the trash. When in doubt, throw it out.
4. If the blackout or water cutoff continues, go to chapter 23 (prolonged collapse): reorganize shifts, resources, and your relationship with neighbors.
5. Take care of mental health: fatigue accumulates. Routine, light exercise, contact with family, and time without news (chapter 25).

Consumption rule: water, if less than a week of reserve is left and there's no restoration date, resupply is the number one task of the day; power, same as the previous week; food, supplement with distribution points; communications, 3 bulletins a day and one daily message to the out-of-state contact.