70 yr/old Woman Composer Forced to Live Outdoors by Utility’s Insistence on Smart Meter Installations
Updated 9/2
Liza Regina Mousios of Revere, Bucks Co. , is a renowned composer, lyricist, orchestrator, and scriptwriter, and is moving into a tent today, though she is not doing so to enjoy the outdoors for Labor Day. She has been forced from her home for over 4 years now by a smart meter mandated by the Pennsylvania legislature. Her electric utility, Met Ed, refuses to accommodate her disability. Smart meters have been completely rolled out to replace previously installed electric meters. These new smart meters transmit electrical usage wirelessly, allow utilities to remotely disconnect power, and collect data from certain wireless devices within the home.
Liza, who is over 70 years old now, knew she had electromagnetic sensitivity prior to the smart meter installation but was able to manage her symptoms. Electromagnetic sensitivity, also known as EMS, is a disability recognized by the US Access Board and listed in the Americans with Disabilities Act. An electrical engineer visited her home and took measurements, noting that the levels of electromagnetic radiation were among the highest he had measured.
The radiation was emitted by the neighbor’s smart meter and included both radiofrequency and microwave radiation from the smart meter as well as the conducted electromagnetic emissions on the household wiring from the meter’s switch-mode power supply. Submitting a formal complaint (as did hundreds of other Pennsylvanians) and subsequent legal proceedings, Liza prevented the installation of a smart meter on her own home yet had no control over installations on adjacent neighbors homes.
The meter’s radiation creates pressure in Liza’s head, especially the occiput. The microwave radiation creates horrific stabbing pain in her ears with high pitched ringing, impeding her ability to compose. Her connective tissue feels on fire, especially in her arms. She experiences sharp pain in her muscles and joints. Newer symptom developments include suffering from lung pain and restriction with shortness of breath and horrific pain in her chest and palpitations. If in the house, exposed to the radiation for a number of hours, Liza vomits blood. She has never previously had any such bleeding or gastric problems
Read LIZA’s AFFIDAVIT presented to the PA House Consumer Affairs Committee.
Liza slept in her car and in a tent for the first nine months after being injured by severe electromagnetic sensitivity from the neighbor’s meter. Every time she tried to sleep inside her house after the smart meter was installed, she would become violently ill and vomit blood. She never had this problem before and is without symptoms in a home with an electrically clean environment—one without wireless devices such as smart meters, Bluetooth, WIFI, cell phones, etc. Her physician wrote letters documenting her adverse reactions to the smart meter and her increasing electromagnetic sensitivity, which the utility company continued to ignore. Liza persevered in the tent.
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When it became too cold, she worked harder to try to find a place to live. It was difficult to work during this time because she did not have safe housing or a safe work environment. Access to a piano was intermittent at best. A local pastor allowed her to use the one in a church for a period of time. Her talent and gift of music is broadly recognized. Academy Award winning composer Joe Renzetti, who has has worked with Liza, say’s “She is a wonderful, clever, composer, capable of composing, orchestrating, writing lyrics, scriptwriting, and with a good understanding of stage direction and choreography. She is very talented, hard-working, reliable and versatile. Ms. Mousios is able to compose and orchestrate jazz, R&B, theater and film music. She is also well-versed in composing all styles of music; baroque, fugues, classical, modern.”
The Opera Project’s Director Walt MacNicoll writes that Liza “is in my sincere belief one of the finest and most original composers of the last fifty years. Liza’s talent is undeniable, as it is indefatigable.”
Liza’s housing has been precarious since the smart meter was installed. Every residence in Pennsylvania is mandated to have a smart meter, so very few homes do not. Liza found a room in a secluded old house in a wooded area that lacked safe water and heat but did not have a smart meter. She had to drive back home to shower and brush her teeth. Liza eventually found housing in an empty convent, though it also had no heat. Despite these significant hurdles, she was able to function and work on her music when it was warm enough. She is highly motivated, loves her music, and just wants to work.
The convent housing was wrought with other insurmountable obstacles, forcing Liza back into a state of homelessness.
Liza agreed to share her story publicly in order to bring attention to the detrimental effects of smart meters and the lack of housing available for people disabled by electromagnetic sensitivity. Liza would be most grateful for any assistance anyone can provide, especially with respect to finding safe and permanent housing for her and others in this situation. It is estimated that up to 30% of the population is developing electromagnetic sensitivity and that up to 3% of the population has already developed severe symptoms similar to Liza’s.
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Proudfoot Insight Foundation, set up as a tax-exempt non-profit, agreed to act as a pass-through for donations for Liza and can maintain accounts for any donations directed to support her. A Santander bank account number for transfer if desired. The EIN is 85-2134364. Checks can be sent to: Proudfoot Insight Foundation, 1410 Old Mill Road, Wyomissing, PA 19610.
To make a donation via credit card or The Cash App visit Liza’s GiveSendGo donation page. 2.7% fee for cards +30cents
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To help illustrate the inhumane and illegal conduct that occurs over the deliberate misreading of Act 129, PA’s smart meter ordinance, Donna Bervinchak of Lancaster, County, made a video of what the end of an appeal to the Public Utility Commission looks like. No other state denies medical accommodation outright like we see here in Pennsylvania.