How long to stay in your shelter.

How soon you may go outdoors.

How long you may stay outside.

You should be prepared to stay in your shelter full time for at least several days and to make it your home for 14 days or longer. A checklist in the Appendix, (page 30) tells what is needed. Families with children will have particular problems. They should provide for simple recreation.

There should be a task for everyone and these tasks should be rotated. Part of the family should be sleeping while the rest is awake.

To break the monotony it may be necessary to invent tasks that will keep the family busy. Records such as diaries can be kept.

The survival of the family will depend largely on information received by radio. A record should be kept of the information and instructions, including the time and date of broadcast.

Family rationing probably will be necessary.

Blowers should be operated periodically on a regular schedule. There will come a time in a basement shelter when the radiation has decayed enough to allow use of the whole basement. However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.

The housekeeping problems of living in a shelter will begin as soon as the shelter is occupied. Food, medical supplies, utensils, and equipment, if not already stored in the shelter, must be quickly gathered up and carried into it.