Video of Hometown

[peacetraveler22]

It finally happened! Someone posted a video of my hometown on YouTube this week. :) The quality isn't great but maybe you'll enjoy it. Or at least like the REAL country music playing in the background. I don't know the name of the singer. Many fun memories flashing on the video, including the roller skating rink, bowling alley and water park I frequently visited as a child. And you will see a shot of "Emmanuel Baptist Church." This is the school I went to from 5th - 12th grade. The one that made me agnostic. The nice shots of the fields at the end are from the Manassas Battlefield. I'll have to do a post on it sometime.

And if you haven't done so, check out my post "Home is Where the Heart Is" where I write about my hometown.

One reader was kind enough to take the time to drive around and make a video of his hometown for me. Really interesting to see!

I wish everyone a pleasant weekend.

Comments

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Yes, we must have cool spaces! :) I cannot stand being hot. Even when I was in Russia in February, I had to open the window because my friend's apartment was so hot and there was no way to individually control the temperature. My apartment thermostat is set at 68F in summertime and in winter I never cut on the heat.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

That always wondered my friends in London when being there I complained about their wet and foggy winter, single-glazed windows and insufficient heating.
They thought that Russians should endure winters better that British.
But that was a wrong assumption because you can endure 5 or 10 C, close the door, put on a sweater and wait for better times.
But when it's -20C around you'll just die with this strategy :)
So in Russia we do not endure winters, we have good heating instead.
25C or so :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

This is too warm for inside, I feel like I'm suffocating. Are all apartment temperatures regulated in Russia? I know it's uncommon for apartment complexes to have air-conditioners. But you cannot control your own temperature at all in winter? Or maybe it was just his place.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, you can if you have regulators installed.

I have regulators on my heat radiators.
They can open or close hot water flow inside.
Chief engineer of the house said "don't touch them as they are not guaranteed to work" :) but anyway I could change to the new ones which will work, if I wanted to.

But I have no intention to do it because, first, the water temperature is regulated by the automatics for the whole house according to the temperature outside.
It's almost never too hot (for me).
And second, everybody pays fixed price for heating so it's wiser to open the window and get more fresh air if it is hotter than desired.

It is a very centralized system, anyway.
All houses get this overheated water (or even steam) directly from electric power stations through underground pipes.
The whole system turns on around the first of October and turns off around the first of May.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

This system would not work for me. I like to be in control of my surroundings, and not have someone else determining house temperatures, etc. I didn't know that everyone pays fixed pricing there. Russian winters, they are beautiful! I wish we had them in Virginia.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

BTW you felt suffocation not only because of high temperature but also because outside air is very dry in winters and feels even more dry when heated.
In such a case you can buy a humidifier.