2 Timothy 3:1-5 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
A woman who has been attempting to become self-sufficient and live “off the grid” has been targeted by officials of Cape Coral, Florida by shutting off her sewage system.
Robin Speronis has been working for years to reduce her need for government services. She has been using solar energy to power her home for a year and a half. She has a system in place to capture rainwater to use for cooking, drinking and bathing. She survives on mostly non-perishable food.
A day after a Fox affiliated TV station aired a story on her efforts; the city ordered her to vacate her home because of code violations. The city later told the TV station that they don’t have the power to evict but wanted access to the home to “provide suggestion” for her to live “off the grid in Cape Coral.”
Speronis was convicted in front of a judge last week for violating a code related to a city approved water supply. She was ordered by the judge to hook up to city utilities. The city then capped her sewage access saying that she had past due bills for using the system. Government officials say Speronis told the she wouldn’t pay for using the sewage system.
Speronis said she has a way to do without the sewer system and doesn’t need it.
