We were going to spend more than a day in this abandoned house, so we wanted to get the place in good condition. I covered the broken windows in one of the apartments with stretched sheets. I blocked the balcony exit with furniture, having first thrown the defrosted and terribly stinking refrigerator and its spoiled food out onto the street. Roma collected and took out the scattered trash, and Galya even swept the floors.
To save time, immediately after cleaning, we set out to scout the nearby buildings. The building next door had recently housed a travel agency. It wasn't exactly the most promising place to make money, but we did find an office water cooler and four fifteen-liter bottles of clean drinking water. Without power, the cooler naturally didn't cool the water and was of no use,
