Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

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“My health has been effected since my neighborhood had smart meters installed. I have trouble sleeping, often
only sleeping a couple of hours each night. I feel this is a giant experiment on the population.” Anon.
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An open letter to SDG&E, Smart Meter Complaint Department
I have made three prior telephone requests advising SDGE of the serious side effects concerning my health
since the installation of the smart meter device at my home. Three different individuals came out to my house
on three separate occasions, all armed with the same propaganda, the same zero concern for my health or the
safety of my home.
I was told, “I don’t know. You are the only one that has complained.” (A false statement.) I was also told, “The
smart meter is not causing any problems to your home.” (Another false statement.)
I am a 49-year-old woman and I have never before experienced any of these problems in either this home, or
any other home that I have lived in, prior to the smart meter installation.
I came home one day after work, and they had just finished installing my smart meter. I did not think anything
of it. I had received a notice a few weeks prior, indicating that a smart meter was going to be installed.
That same evening I awoke between 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning, with ringing in my ears, dizziness, tingling
at the upper part of my head that turned into a headache and then nausea. There was also a horrible feeling of
uneasiness that I had never experienced before and that prevents me from going back to sleep at night — every
night.
One of my dogs awoke at the same time, wandering the hallways whining and crying. This dog refuses to sleep
inside at night now, as the pulsed radiation also makes him sick. This dog had slept at the foot of my bed since
the day I brought him home until the night the smart meter was installed. I have numerous friends and family
who will testify to this, if called to do so.
The same scenario occurs whenever I sleep in my home, a home that I worked six or seven days a week for
most of my life to be able to afford, and now you, the utility company, is FORCING PULSED RADIATION
where I live and sleep, which if you do your homework and read the numerous articles that have been
published by scientists who were not paid off by a utility company, you will see that radiation causes cancer
and I will not stand for a cancer causing device to be attached to my home.
I was gone for two weeks on two occasions over the summer, and I sleep fine whenever I am away from my
home. I was in Peru for two weeks without these problems and also in Alaska, where I had no trouble sleeping,
no trouble concentrating, no dizziness, no ringing in my ears, no tingling at the upper part of my head that
turned into headaches.
I also have noticed a strange humming and buzzing in my home around the appliances, coming from the
computer, and around all the intercom panels in my home. I’ve had three people out from SDGE and they all
heard the humming and buzzing and told me to turn the intercom down all the way and then I would not hear
it.
I asked them, “How do you explain this? This humming and buzzing was not ever here before the smart meter
installation? My kitchen appliances never hummed and buzzed before the smart meter installation.” I told
them, “I don’t think my house is safe. This is not normal.”
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