Out of curiosity and because I remembered a particular case, I did a search for women living in their homes with no power or water, and managing well-to-okay doing so, who have been threatened, harassed, hassled and fined for various code violations by the local "authorities". It seems to bother "the authorities" when people decide to live off-grid for whatever their reasons. For instance, in Coral Gables, Fla., a law mandates homes to have electricity and city water hookups. One woman stopped using their water and they're insisting she pay to reconnect even if she won't use it.
Juxtaposing here for a minute, Obongo's EPA is closing coal mines and imposing draconian regulations causing power plants to shutter all over the country which will result in brown-outs and black-outs, we are warned. California eco-nazis have set about refusing to continue to build the necessary water supply and storage infrastructure while simultaneously flushing what water the state does have out to sea to "protect" a stinkin' bait fish. This has resulted in starving farmers of irrigation water and the rationing of water to everybody else hoi polloi.
So, "the authorities" demand we join the collective, using the current utilities, or face consequences, until they decide (as they are) that such amenities must be rationed and what we are allowed to cost dear, in which case we're told to just deal with it.
