Traffic was besieged, ground flights and trains were suspended while people were trapped in the elevator and left without water supply. The whole cities were cut off with mobile networks, Wi-Fi, ATMs and card devices, which began at 12.30 pm on Monday.
In Portugal, a country with 10.6 million people, the cutting to the capital, Lisbon and the surrounding areas as well as the northern and southern areas of the country. Meanwhile, the capital of Spain, Madrid as well as cities such as Barcelona and Valencia were also affected.
Red Electrica, the Spanish power grid operator, said the massive silence affects the Iberian Peninsula and works with energy companies to restore energy.
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The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, said the problem was caused by “strong fluctuations” in the electricity grid, but the cause is still determined. The Spanish leader urged the general public to refrain from speculation, saying that no theory had been thrown away.
Meanwhile, Ren’s Portuguese Network operator suggested that the “rare” phenomenon was due to the “severe temperature” changes in Spain’s interior, adding that operations to restore energy distribution across Portugal were more complex than Spain and could take a week to completely release to the country.
Red Electric said the goal is to completely restore electricity within six to 10 hours. Currently, areas in the north and south of the Power Peninsula have been repaired.
One of Torremolinos residents, Michael Bacil, said the power was repaired although he told him Independent He was afraid that this was only temporary.
“For us, things were more than losing electricity,” he said. “This network cut also destroyed our mobile network and left us without any communication,” he said.
In addition, the water supply of our apartment was cut off – probably due to the city’s pumping system. This is really an apocalypse.
“About six hours, we were completely isolated and we were not even able to provide information,” he said. “It was a guessing game about what happened.”
Parts of the basement of Madrid were stopped and traffic lights were stopped throughout the capital. Portuguese police said traffic lights have been affected throughout the country and the subway has been closed in Lisbon and Porto.
Social media films from Malaga, on the southern coast of Spain, also showed that subway passengers were forced to walk inside the tunnel by evacuating the wagons.
The organizers of the Madrid Tennis Competition suspended the competition for this day because boards and cameras were deactivated around clay courts.
British tennis fans, who watched the British Tennis Tennis game against Gregory Dimitrov, said there was widespread confusion when the interruption.
“The television pages went out, so they suspended the game,” he said. “They couldn’t resume the game because the camera was stuck on the ground,” he said.
“We went out to get a beer, assuming it was only here and the electricity was back very quickly.” They then realized that the decline in national power was.
People in the WhatsApp neighborhood in Barcelona and the cities and cities of Outskirt also reported the silence.
This reduction also affected the people who were flying to Portugal and Spain at this time.
According to Aviation Analytics Cirium, more than 500 flights took place on Monday due to traveling from England airports to two countries.
British Airways fired at least one trip far from London, while Easyjet canceled his flights to and from Bristol.
Madrid and Lisbon airports were both influenced by the impact on arrival and departure. Thousands of passengers flew from airport flights to Latin America, and Lisbon Airport announced that no flights will be off at 10pm.
