Posted by Stefanie Toth on Oct 18, 2012; 9:48am
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/EHS-and-California-tp4023548p4023565.html

Hi Esther,

That's exactly what I thought :-) .

Stefanie


--- Esther LeSieur <[hidden email]> schrieb am Do, 18.10.2012:

Von: Esther LeSieur <[hidden email]>
Betreff: Re: [eSens] EHS and California
An: [hidden email]
Datum: Donnerstag, 18. Oktober, 2012 10:36 Uhr

Hi Stefanie,

I lived in Daly City which is the first city south of San Francisco, 
and just south of Ocean Beach.  In SF, PG&E has installed smart 
electric and gas meters, and the water company was installed smart gas 
meters.  PG&E's electric smart meters are much
 stronger because of the 
need to get the signals transmitted over the hills in SF.   I believe 
there are also smart parking meters in SF, or soon will be.   I have 
to go into the city twice a month, and get dizzy when I do.

You can opt out of having a PG&E smart meter if you pay $75 upfront 
and $10/month.  If you qualify for their low income program, you pay 
$10 upfront and $5/month.  If you live in an apartment, the problem is 
that there are usually banks of meters for the building, so you'll get 
increased exposure, even if you opt out.

According to antennasearch.com, my friend who lives in San Francisco 
has 66 cell towers and 901 antenna with in a 3 mile radius of her 
home.  The San Francisco Bay Area is pretty much blanketed with 4G 
from the cell towers.

The houses here in most of the
 Bay Area are very close to each other 
in comparison to other parts of the country, so neighbors' smart 
meters, wifi and other wireless can be a problem.  (The houses on 
either side of me are about 10 feet away.)  My ES started with one 
neighbor getting a smart meter about a year before the rest of the 
area.  Now that my whole neighborhood has been "smart metered",  my ES 
has increased substantially.

The SF airport is located just south of San Francisco, so there's 
radar and all sorts of stuff coming from there, but that would only be 
a problem if you lived quite close I would think.

Joshua Hart is from Santa Cruz, and started stopsmartmeters.org 
because of the impending PG&E installation of meters there, which PG&E 
did despite a city ordinance prohibiting it.  It's possible he may be 
able to
 help.

I'm fairly housebound, and don't go further south than to San Mateo, 
which is down the Peninsula, so I really don't know much about areas 
further south from there.  On the coast, there's a town just south of 
where I am called Pacifica. I believe they have smart meters (you 
could check with PG&E's website), but they may not have so many cell 
towers (check antennasearch and verizon's website).  Pacifica is 
mostly surrounded by cliffs.  The drive is probably about 20-30 
minutes to SF.  Further down on the coast is Half Moon Bay which may 
also be worth exploring.

There's a city called Alameda in the East Bay that may not have smart 
meters.  I was told by a resident there that they have their own power 
company.  That was a few years ago, so I don't know if that has 
changed.  To get to San
 Francisco from there, you have to cross the 
Bay Bridge by car or bus, or take BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) from 
Oakland.

Just to give you a head's up, housing costs, whether renting or 
buying, are very high in the SF Bay Area.  (It can be a shock.)

Hope some of this helps.

Esther



On Oct 17, 2012, at 1:17 AM, Stefanie Toth wrote:
 California to make it better?
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> Stefanie
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