The Spaniards shared what people really did when power came out.
Spain and Portugal suffered a massive blackout on Monday, April 28th, causing widespread disruption in both countries. Residents were left without electricity and cell phone signals, and flight and train services were stopped.
But Alex Socoloff, founder of Produx Design, a digital agency in Barcelona, Spain, joined social media platform X to show what people actually did on Chaos. That probably wasn't what was expected.
In his tweet, he wrote: The massive power blackouts of Spain and Portugal! There is no internet, payments are closed, flights are cancelled. “Media: Chaos! People are panicking! What really happened: We just took a blanket, a beer and had a great time together.”
He included photos of many people from different groups.
Spain's national grid operator, Red Electrical de Spaña, said 99.16% of the mainland's electricity demand had recovered as of 6am. Portuguese grid operator Ren announced that at X all substations within the country's grid had been restored by 11:30pm last night, and that the event was of “external origin.”
Thousands of passengers on Barcelona's metro were evacuated yesterday after a blackout, according to Spanish news site Elmundo. In Valencia, the metro has stopped services across the network, parts of Madrid's underground have been evacuated, and local media have announced that the city's signal has stopped working.
Air travel was also affected as power was cut off at Madrid's Barajas International Airport and thousands of passengers were stuck at Valencia Airport. Arrivals and departures are delayed at both airports.
The backup generator has been activated across the Spanish airports, Express previously reported, according to Anna, a public agency that owns and operates most of Spain's airports. The bar couldn't pay for the card and the cash machine was down.
Alex's tweet shows some people in Spain gained 391,900 views, 4,900 likes and nearly 200 comments at the time of writing during the blackout. One X user said, “Can I have one in America next? That's a bit nice.”
Another addition: “We haven't had such a carefree day since the Covid era.” The third suggested: “Maybe this should happen (a) on weekends everywhere?”
Others cried out “This is cute (but),” “You're very European”, “Perfect!” But like someone else said, not everyone looked at the light side of their minds. “Yes, but tourists – no.
“We also didn't have thousands of people who were stuck somewhere and had to go and pick up their children or relatives or do something important.”
Another user asked: “Really? What about all refrigerated foods in every home and storage? Just list one major issue with the situation.”
