How to live in Spain the mass blackout on April 28

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April 28, 2025April 28, 2025By Mario Vásquez
How to live in Spain the mass blackout on April 28

Half an hour after noon, much of the country ran out of energy. Suddenly, the cell phones lost signal, the electronic devices were disconnected and elevators and trains stopped.

Confused and surprised, Many people then launched the streets to withdraw effective from the ATMs, while others tried in vain to find a telephone signal To communicate with your loved ones.

Carlos Condori was traveling in the Madrid subway when the train stopped abruptly.

“The light left and the car stopped,” but fortunately the train managed to move slowly to the platform, this 19 -year -old worker told AFP out of the Metro station of the Bank of Spain, in the center of the Spanish capital.

People were “stunned, because this had never happened in Spain,” he added.

“There is no coverage, I can’t call my family, my parents, nothing. I can’t even go to work,” he added.

In the Plaza de Cibeles, one of the most emblematic and busy monuments of the city, the blackout that left the traffic lights unused unleashed a cacophony of mermaids, whistles and vehicle speakers while the police tried to control traffic chaos.

Deconcited office workers congregated in the streets with their unusable computers, while other people said they felt relieved of not having been trapped in elevators.

Marina Sierra, a 16 -year -old student, tried to contact her father while thinking about a way of being able to return home, in the suburbs of Madrid.

“They have had to evacuate quickly” From the school where he studies, he said.

“I am getting shocked because everything is superded,” he said.

Full streets in Barcelona

Confusion also seized Barcelona, ​​the capital of Catalonia, where locals and visitors began to swirling in streets trying to find out what was happening.

“He was in the laboratory and everything has been turned off,” explained Adam Martínez, 33, about how he had surprised the cut in his workplace.

With the closed subway and trains without working, The huge row was waiting to get to the bus that I thought could take home.

“I am here because I can’t do something else,” he said between the noise of the clas and whistles of the police officers trying to organize traffic in a chaotic center of Barcelona, ​​with many of his traffic lights off.

“We do not know absolutely anything, because (…) there is no Internet connection. We are trapped,” lamented a few meters further Gloria Sanchís, among the crowd that waited for the bus that connects the center with the airport.

After an hour and a half of a row, she is 69 -year -old retired feared not arriving on time on her return flight.

“They have not put enough resources for all the fuss that is here,” he said, stating that he did not remember to have seen such a blackout in Spain.

Nor had he found in a similar situation Sabrina Iannucci, an American student who was looking for with her friends the way she arrives at the airport so as not to lose her flight to Italy.

“I had never lived something like that, we were somewhat confused,” said this 21 -year -old girl sitting on her suitcase near the central Paseo de Gracia.

“I felt a little overwhelmed”he acknowledged about the first moments of uncertainty, when he saw that his accommodation ran out of energy and nobody knew what was happening.

Photography of the Gran Vía without Light this Monday during the mass blackout of the electrical system in Madrid. EEFE/Borja Sánchez-Trillo

In Madrid, Pilar López tried to put into perspective the confusion and panic of other people worried about the food they had left in their refrigerators.

“We have suffered a pandemic, I don’t think this is worse, said the 53 woman who works in higher education.

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“It’s something that had never happened to us before. So it’s like everything, you know? Until one gets used to and begins to think that this is not the end of the world,” he adds.

More than 35% of the electricity network was restored in Spain Almost nine hours after the start of the gigantic blackout that plunged the country in chaos, the Ree Gestonary announced.

Long journey to return home in full blackout

A crowd descends along the main avenue of Madrid in search of a bus, a taxi or to advance part of the long way to return home in a chaotic day in Spain, with the country paralyzed by a massive blackout.

Under a still firm sun, thousands of people make the journey between the noise of the engines and the whistles of the disorganized traffic on this unusual Monday.
Without electricity after noon, the country’s trains are paralyzed, subway stops have been closed and travelers, without sign or internet in cell phones, walk disoriented.

In the central square of cyber, cars, taxis and buses they are still stunned in a great jam that pedestrians try to overcome winding.

There are still 11 trains blocked with passengers On board in Spain for the great blackout, the Minister of Transportation reported.

They restore electricity supply in Portugal

The Portuguese Electric Company announced that it had restored the supply to about 750 thousand consumers after a generalized blackout that left the country and neighbor Spain dark.

The supply stations of the largest city in the country, Porto, in the north, will work again and the situation was expected to be normalized “shortly,” a REN spokesman told AFP, which has 6.5 million customers, while the capital, Lisbon, remained without electricity.

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