Spain, Portugal work to fix massive power outage – DW
Spain, Portugal work to fix massive power outage – DW
Spain and Portugal held emergency Cabinet meetings as evacuations from some public spaces took place. Spain's Interior Ministry has declared a state of emergency for affected regions that need it. Follow DW.
There is currently no power in the Iberian Peninsula. It has been going for about 9 hours now. Yet on Lemmy, I feel like no one talk about this huge international event.
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Yet on Lemmy, I feel like no one talk about this huge international event.
Maybe because the people that are affected don't have power.
Maybe because the people that are affected don’t have power.
Can confirm - we just got our power back (I’m in Lisbon). We had internet access for the first hour or so, but after that we were offline for several hours. Most of my family (outside of Lisbon) are still unreachable.
Lets not abdicate our responsibility to wildly speculate about the situation in their absence
I would like to speculate that the entire Iberian peninsula has fallen into the Atlantic. Andorra is coastline now.
That's right. We spent most day in Spain without power, internet or cellphones. The only working news source was the good old FM radio.
My emergency kit has a radio with AM / FM / NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA) and a hand crank to charge its battery for exactly this reason.
NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA)
For now...
:(
At least I live in an area where the most likely disaster is an earthquake that destroys the entire area, and I'm not sure how useful weather alerts would be in that case.
I always consider buying a hand cranked FM radio for Hurricane season, but always talk myself out of it. I think you just inspired me to finally just do it.
Have you heard anything about what might have caused the drop in power?