canned food

"Have a week’s worth of water on hand, some canned food, and then maybe have some batteries for your flashlight," he advises.

On tables and desks from schools turned shelters, wartime vendors lined a street, selling used clothes, baby formula, canned food and the rare batch of homemade cookies.

A number of stalls in the camp sell tent-building equipment, canned foods and basic vegetables such as tomatoes and potatoes at inflated prices.

He said the Russians give women canned food like sardines or bottled water afterward.

“Some employees that like cats would bring them leftovers from home and, every once in a while, canned food or rice and soup,” Castillo said.