"U.S. Janet B." wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 18:02:51 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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>On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 10:03:58 AM UTC-5, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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>> On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 6:41:50 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>> > On 12/9/2016 5:07 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> > > I see meters outside here too.
>> > >
>> > The *main* electrical box is outside of my house attached to the back
>> > wall. That's where the guy reads the meter. I'm not convinced they
>> > actually "read" the meter anymore. It's rare I see someone outside
>> > checking it. I have seen someone from time to time.
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>> We've got smart meters. They report their readings back to the
>> utility via RF signals. So, no guy reading the meter.
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>> We avoid those like the plague! They have too much control! For
>> example
>> they can remotely cut the power to your house or some cases to various
>> circuits in the house if they feel that demand in your area is too high.
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>They might be able to cut power to the whole house, but I know for a
>fact that our connection won't permit individual circuits to be cut.
>They won't cut power to the entire house in case someone is using
>medical equipment.
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>In any event, we have a generator that comes on automatically if
>there's a power outage.
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>Cindy Hamilton
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>We have generators but they don't come on automatically.
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>We prefer them not to have so much power over us and so long as it not
>compulsory we won't have those meters.

you can always go off the grid and then they have no power over you --
go solar. Or get gas powered appliances. By accepting modern
amenities like roads, water, electricity you are accepting the rules
of civilization. By tempering the amount of power some individuals
get during a stressed period, the utilities make sure enough power is
available for necessary functions like hospitals, police, the water
plant, individuals at home that must have electricity to live etc. The
utility is just spreading the impact among users. If this happens
often and you are worried about your electrical devices you should
hook all of them up to a either a whole house surge protector or
individual surge protectors. Looking at Google I see that whole house
surger protectors run from about $100 to $200 US if you buy and
install yourself. My utility does have a program where you as a
homeowner can volunteer to have less power delivered to your house
during periods when you know you will not be there. They offer
additional savings for participating in this program.
I guess the thing is that if we as citizens of this planet want to
continue to have babies, drive cars, use refrigerators etc. we need to
anticipate that we will have to all be part of sharing resources.
Sorry about the sermon. . .it wasn't aimed at you in particular.
Janet US

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If the situation was that desperate here they would make it compulsory.


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