The Day FEMA arrived

Finally after three weeks without power FEMA trucks started arriving in major cities.  They brought the normal things like water, MRE's, blankets, etc.  People were trampling each other to get to the trucks.  If someone was waiting on a truck to help them they had to get in line and get in line early.  And no one was being nice or friendly about it.  At this point most people in the cities had started looking out only for themselves and had no qualms with pushing their neighbor out of the way to get food or water for themselves.  Families with kids seemed worse since the momma bear mentality came out in many of them.

For people like Brian and Sarah they had a community.  They had resources and ways of providing for their families without having to venture to the big cities for the FEMA truck handouts.  They wouldn't have been able to get there without fuel anyway and the gas stations couldn't run without power.

Sarah had started doing work with her kids each day to continue with their educations.  She wasn't a teacher and she didn't know if she could get them much beyond basics but she was doing what she could.  Her husband no longer went into work and the whole family worked the farm each day.  They had gone to a barter system with the neighbors so that everyone could get what they needed from each other in a fair manner.  They weren't eating as good as they did before the power went out.  There weren't any soda or chips in the house any longer but they were still eating decently and that was what mattered to them.

Brian was also able to barter for what his family needed beyond their canned good supplies.  They had a number of those in their closets but meat was something they were severely lacking.  So they had to barter their canned goods, clothes or other items to get the things they need.  His wife was still of the mentality that everything would go back to normal soon and she didn't need to butcher her livestock to survive.

Amanda was doing the worst of everyone as the food ran low.  She didn't have any means of getting more and not much to trade with neighbors for food.  She was one of many trying to get to the FEMA trucks to feed her kids.  Even if she had to walk the whole way.  She was starting to think of trying to head towards family.  Her parents had more means of getting food such as hunting and fishing and that could help.  She prayed every night that the power would come back on and that she could go back to work.  She worried about how she would provide for her family.

David had started hunting and fishing.  He was near the water and that helped alot.  He was able to trade some of the fish for other things like candles, lanterns, canned goods to help him get by.  It wasn't great but it was something.  His neighborhood really came together to help each other out and keep the crime at bay.  When the FEMA truck arrived there everyone went into town in shifts.  Some stayed behind to watch over the other houses.  They were all about keeping each other safe.