@mattl5846
I'm in southern Spain, not only did the power go out, but all phone providers went down
@simo-gu4rv
We in Morocco were also affected by this outage through the influence of some internet networks since noon.I wish all people in Spain and Portugal well and return to normal as soon as possible. Modification : orange network give us free internet for one day to apologize for their customers
@weekdaycycling
That's terrible. Two developed countries have suffered power outages — it almost feels like a plot straight out of a Hollywood movie about cyberattacks.
@joaofranciscocorreia140
No sense of panic whatsoever. People were all extremely calm and patient throughout the day in Lisbon. Cars were driving slowly and lots of people took the chance to just go outside and socialize
@matslexell
Swede living in Lisbon here: The Portuguese didn't panic, they were actually excited for a day off 😅
@zeroviro
Wishing everyone in Spain and Portugal a safe and quick recovery from this major outage. It's a reminder of how important resilient energy infrastructure is in today's world.
@vo3614
Why are you acting as if everyone was panicking? They weren’t. They were drinking beers and coffees in the street, all was calm and peaceful. Europeans are civilized.
@brendamiranda1040
(A realistic POV from a mother and three little kids - From Portugal) So I live on the tenth floor. Suddenly I couldn’t call my husband, then I realized I couldn’t reach him through WhatsApp. So no phone carrier nor wifi. Then I realised electricity was off and I couldn’t cook anything for the kids (because stove is electric) , 5 minutes later I realised there was no water (because the building system needs electricity to send water up.) When I looked up the window, sky was all crossed with that military planes smoke, and the ships on the sea stopped, they wouldn’t go ahead to the city port nor go back. As I couldn’t reach anyone to know what was going on, I started to panick because I had a newborn and a toddler with me, but the older kid was at school and I couldn’t contact school to know if everything was fine. Went to pick up my kid at school in a rush, couldn’t pay the bus, cause the system wouldn’t take the digital payment and I didn’t have cash on me (I forgot or went mind fogged that I needed cash in case electricity went off). In the end I had to give the driver the coins I had and ask him to let us in. And we had to go up 10 floors of stairs, the boy saying “mom I’m tired”, and I be like: “we are almost there, darling, keep going”, and I am still in the puerperium so started bleeding right there. All of these trying to answer the kids as playful as I could about what was going on, and keeping up with the smile on the face. “Mom, why that much planes on the sky?” “Because today is a different crazy day” “Mom, why do we have to go up through all of these stairs?” “Because today is a different crazy day” “Mom, why can’t we dad?” “Because phone is not working” “Why is it not working?” “Because today is a crazy different day”
@mariastavash9241
I live in a town 50 kms away from Barcelona, here the electricity just got back 20 min ago
@GhostHoundK9
The importance of paper money is finally being remembered!
@cattmono
Lisbon person here, just got electricity and internet back. No phone calls, messages, internet, or light during the whole day. There are still outages going on. We are truly nothing in this world!
@JonM-dp7et
Wishing everyone affected a fast and safe recovery.
@vanessa662
I just got home and the power is finally back on! 👏
@pedroalmeida5547
Portuguese here. Power back on. Good social experiment. Great engineering feat to already having power back up to at such level at this moment. Proud of my countrymem resilience organization and civic behaviour. As there's always the idea of the disorganized southern Europeans. We showed otherwise. Full black out, all over the country. Without communications. At the same time. Without any help support, as we would only have Spanish assistance (also affected). And back and running by ourselves in less than 12 hours. Proud of my country.
@Nessmess001
In madrid, power just came back a little while ago. Cant imagine what the people stuck in elevators mustve gone through for 5 hours....Fire department had its hands full with all those rescues
@SixStreams
I'm from Portugal, we were a total of 9 hours without power, only a few stores could open with backup generators, supplies ran dry on these hours on essencial food like canned food and water on a lot of places. There are many families that switched for electric everything, so they couldn't cook, me included, i just made BBQ to get some food in, but many didn't have this posibility and credit cards were not working on a lot of places. We cannot have anything for granted and this just showed us that every country should be auto suficient and able to provide alone for it's citizens. It was a shame what happened and the response was quick considering the facts, but it still happened and we were not ready. Hopefully this is going to be a model for future references and we will learn and adapt from this, i certanly will.
@E.Wrayburn
Ngl, it was a bit alarming. Two hours after the beginning of the outage, I went to an ATM in Lisbon because I didn't have any cash with me, and the line at that ATM was huge, but the thing that shocked me the most is that most people were withdrawing hundreds of euros, as if the world were going to end. The guy in front of me withdrew 600 euros from two different credit cards. If people react like this if they go a couple of hours without power, imagine what will happen when actual shi t happens, such as a natural disaster, an incident in a power plant, the arrival of the aliens, etc.
@claudiaaponte
I'm praying for all those affected. Electricity is indispensable in modern times, and these interruptions could cause the loss of life.
@delializarraga9638
I used to work for a major power company in Arizona USA. I also live in the desert. One of the most important things I've learned is to store water in my Home. 5 gallon containers in each closet. Why? Because when electricity is cut, you can't run pumps to distribute water within municipal system or privately owned wells. You can live without food for about two weeks, but you can only live about three days without water. So there's a golden nugget for the day. Hope they get power back up in Spain and abroad.
@henryalexander0409