A handicapped woman in western Ohio has to battle the freezing winter weather this weekend because she refused to allow the local power company to install a “smart meter” on her property.
Brenda Hawk has a pacemaker for her heart and because her was brain injured in a car accident, she requires a breathing machine in order to sleep at night. She does not want the radio-frequency emitting new meter because of the health problems these devices have been said to cause. American Electric Power AEP-Ohio, the local power company has persisted in their push to swap out Hawk’s analog meter and replace it with the new one.
TheBlaze spoke with Hawk on Saturday. At the time, she was using a kerosene heater to stay warm in the freezing weather. Hawk gave us a basic timeline on the story.
In October of last year, a utility worker arrived on her property and announced that he had removed her old analog power meter and replaced it with a new one. Hawk told him that she had not approved the meter swap and requested that the old one be restored. A series of phone calls between Hawk, the power company and the sheriff’s office was enough to get the new meter pulled out and the old one re-installed.
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Subject: UPDATED: HANDICAPPED WOMAN REFUSES SMART METER — HAS POWER CUT IN THE DEAD OF WINTER 
Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:06 pm
