Audrey Parker
Posted on 07/10/2013 7:40:34 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
“I don’t think people buckled when they built this country,”
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Audrey Parker
They want to put a small radio transmitter so they can read the meter from the street and not have to demand entry to her house to read it.
This is not agenda 21. It’s a simple improvement in the way the city meters and bills for the water it supplies. There is no reason to get heart palpitations over it.
Go, Audrey! I really don’t think radio frequencies are a concern but 2+billion on energy conservation. Love to see how much landfill is used up with all the old water meters.
That’s the green movement scam-people throwing away perfectly good items for ‘green’ technology.
I applaud this lady.
I just found out that my rather reclusive cousin in CA (who is considered “odd” by the rest of the family) is in a similar battle with both the city, where she lives, and her younger brother who is supposed to watch over her. She refuses to connect the phone to receive calls and recently returned a cell phone (covered in tin foil) to her brother who had given it to her so she could call 911 in an emergency.
What she doesn’t know is that she has a smart meter on her home, and her brother can link to it (from another city 130 miles away) so that he can track her electricity useage to make sure that she is alive and well.
We all think she’s nuts, but maybe she’s smarter than all the rest of us put together. She’s getting along fine — nearly off the grid in the heart of a large city.
Why doesn’t the city put the smart meter out by the road? Seems like this would be a ‘smart’ solution that would accommodate both parties?
And her brother works for whom? The electric company?
Otherwise I would be interested to hear that this information is available to the public...
Her brother is a self employed architect. I don’t know how he does it, and I’m not going to ask. He is her guardian, but she resists all help. He has a way to link to her meter to see when the usage peaks, the variations throughout the day, etc. so that he is aware of movement in her house.
Since he’s kind of the caretaker, he likely has the account number.......log in via computer and “check your usage” - that’s the way they’re touting those things around here.
Tyranny comes to Maple Street.
They want to put a small radio transmitter so they can read the meter from the street and not have to demand entry to her house to read it.
This is not agenda 21. It’s a simple improvement in the way the city meters and bills for the water it supplies. There is no reason to get heart palpitations over it.”””
Sorry- YOU are wrong.
I live rural—have since 1993.
I have had electric meters all that time, and the ‘meter reader’ doesn’t get out of his truck. He stops- punches some buttons on his ‘reader’ & my power usage is recorded for the monthly billing period.
He never sets foot inside my fence lines.
The SMART meters CAN & WILL be controllable by outside persons as to YOUR usage.
The usage can be restricted/lowered electronically anytime they wish.
I have lived on a PRIVATE well also since 1993. I have large animals- horses. We have had a 10 ++ day heat wave with temps over 110 degrees on many of those days. When the temp gets over 90, my horses drink plenty of water-—as much as 50 gallons EACH per day. Being told by ANYONE how much water my horses will be allowed will be grounds for shooting someone!!!
Control of every aspect of your life from behind the Washington Beltway is not their job!!!. Most of those fools don’t even know the difference between a horse & a pony!!!
E. Pluribus Unum ~:” UN Agenda 21 at work to eliminate all private property and individual freedom.”
Agenda 21 is a United Nations effort to control people and land by useing beige , benign ,neutral grammar.
The Agenda 21 ‘buzz words’ :
envireonmental sustainability
smart growth
heritage act
regionalization
sustainability
eminent domain
just compensation
The city already controls your water. There is a valve in the street. They can turn it off anytime they want. Nothing will change for this woman if they put a transmitter on her meter.
Coast to Coast had someone on last night to explain Agenda 21. Pretty frightening.
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