Large blackouts plunged Spain into chaos

Power outages swept throughout Spain plunged the country into chaos on Monday, triggering broad panic when citizens were desperate to look for cash from ATMs and combine paths in a futile effort to secure cell phone signals.

Carlos Condori, one of the millions of people affected throughout Spain and Portugal, experienced a sudden disorder when traveling with Metro Madrid.

“The lights went out, and the train stopped,” tells the 19-year-old construction worker, noting the train finally limped to the station. “People are stunned because this has never happened in Spain,” he continued, highlighting the unprecedented nature of blackouts. “There is no telephone coverage, I can’t call my family, my parents – nothing. I can’t even go to work.”

At the crowded Square Cibeles Madrid, the failure of the traffic lights released the hustle and bustle of the siren, whistle, and horn of a booming car when the police struggled to manage the next traffic jams. Office workers who are confused standing still on the streets, their computers become useless without internet connectivity, while others express relief to avoid narrowly trapped in the elevator.

Marina Sierra, a 16-year-old student who was confused who tried to contact her father, desperately looking for a way home after her school was suddenly closed. “The building where we are outside of smoke, so they have to evacuate us quickly … I am surprised because everything is really out of control,” he said, conveying a widespread mess.

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The transportation system in Barcelona, ​​the second largest city in Spain, also fell to chaos when local residents and tourists flooded the streets, desperately looking for information in the midst of uncertainty. Laia Montserrat, a student who lives for an hour outside Barcelona, ​​found himself stranded when the blackout crashed into his school presentation in the middle of his school. “Because the internet did not return, they told us to go home, but there was also no train,” Laia explained. “Now we don’t know what to do.”

Leonor Abecasis, a 27 -year -old consultant who visited Barcelona from Portugal, was caught red -handed while shopping when electricity failed. “We are waiting for electricity to return,” he said, claiming to be “a little” worried about the flight back scheduled to Lisbon that day.

In the midst of widespread confusion and increased anxiety, Lopez’s pillar, a 53-year-old high education administrator in Madrid, tried to offer a sense of perspective to his panicked colleagues, who was uneasy about food in their freezers who were now not in power. “We suffer from Pandemic; I think this is not worse,” Lopez reasoned. “This is like anything – you are used to and start thinking that this is not the end of the world.”

For Lopez, a broad disorder functions as an excessive reminder of the dependence of modern society in electricity. “Maybe we should go back to the bottom and not depend too much on electricity for certain things,” he advised. Highlighting the direct impact on everyday transactions, he added, “I can’t even pay because my cellphone does not work. Sometimes you have to be a little more analogous; this proves it.”

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