Hot water shut-off Summer is a good season. There are long sunny days and short warm nights. The air is filled with different floral smells. You can listen many sounds of the birds. You can wear lightweight clothing and outdoor shoes, for example, dresses, shorts, T-shirts and shirts with short sleeves, sandals and flip-flops. You can eat ice-cream in the street and don't be afraid to freeze and sick. But in my country there is one thing that glooms some summer days. It is hot water shut-off. It's strange maybe. I don't know if there is something similar in other countries, but in Belarus and Russia this is exactly what happens and happens in the summer. This is somehow connected with the central heating system, which was built in Soviet times. As far as I know this heating has very long pipes through which there is hot water in our homes. And these pipes are repaired every year so that in winter people don't stay without heating and hot water. But in summer the period of life without hot water can last from two weeks to a month and a half. At this time, you need to stock up with a huge amount of pots to heat the water in them. And you need a ladle with which you will pour water instead of a shower. Only so you can wash yourself. Sometimes I think I don't live in 21 century. Around so many technologies but I heat the water in pots on the stove and water myself with water from a ladle.))) Sometimes I think that this is not a preventive repair of pipes but there is to harden the patience of the population.