No Running Water, No Electricity… Living in the City
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by Survival Joe | Thursday, August 12, 2010 In Economics, News |
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“This house has stopped paying their electricity bill,” says an anonymous YouTube reporter pointing his camera through the dark night at a window dimly lit by a candle. “They’re literally having bonfires every night. This is what’s happening in Southern California. 25% of people in my area are squatting on their own property.”
Over in New Jeresy, the Board of Public Utilities reports that 51,768 homes had their electricity shut off in the last six months. 6,783 families went without gas. 2,943 households have had their water valves closed tight.
New Jeresy Online reports people are “filling 5-gallon water jugs at a neighbor’s house and lugging them across the street. Using the toilet means dumping a bucket of water by hand into the tank before each flush. When the family wants to shower, it needs to impose on sympathetic friends.”
These are good people who are thousands of dollars behind in their utility payments. They send out a hundred resumes and can’t get a job stocking shelves at Walmart at three in the morning.
Save where you can. Sell what you can. I just sold our second car.
These are not isolated incidents. It’s only the beginning.
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