{"id":57947,"date":"2025-04-28T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57947\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:53:10","slug":"millions-across-spain-portugal-france-face-sudden-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57947\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions Across Spain, Portugal, France Face Sudden Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds trying in vain to get a signal as a Spain-wide power outage plunged the country into chaos on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Condori, one of millions of people affected in Spain and Portugal, was travelling on the Madrid metro when the blackout brought his journey to a shuddering halt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The light went out and the carriage stopped,&#8221; but the train managed to crawl into the platform, the 19-year-old construction sector worker told AFP outside a metro station in central Madrid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in.<br \/>Mass Blackouts in Spain, Portugal and in part of France.<br \/>Every single part of digital life from shops, to traffic lights, hospitals, airports, phones, and trains, all down.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ETDgtfE9wk\">pic.twitter.com\/ETDgtfE9wk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rainmaker1973\/status\/1916857493927428314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;People were stunned, because this had never happened in Spain,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s no (phone) coverage, I can&#8217;t call my family, my parents, nothing: I can&#8217;t even go to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At Cibeles Square, one of the Spanish capital&#8217;s busiest thoroughfares, the blackout of traffic lights unleashed a cacophony of sirens, whistles and car horns as police tried to control the pile-up of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Bewildered office workers congregated in streets with their computers made useless without internet,\u00a0 alongside residents were thankful they had not been trapped in lifts.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds trying in vain to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,30382,36,3046,104,30381,30385,30384,30240,30383],"class_list":{"0":"post-57947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-europe-power-outage","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-portugal","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-spain-blackout","15":"tag-spain-electricity","16":"tag-spain-news","17":"tag-spain-power-outage","18":"tag-spain-power-outage-live"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114416635406660025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}