People trapped in elevators, passengers of the train who went down the tracks and others were thrown in the middle of nowhere, collapsed roads, long lines in supermarkets, closed and conspiracy stores with all kinds of theories. Those were just some of the prints left on Monday the unpublished mass blackout in the recent history of Spain and whose causes are still investigated. And in the midst of chaos there was also an undisputed protagonist: the radio, the medium to which many people continue to resort to Moments of Crisis the Catastrophsas happened six months ago with the Dana in the Valencian Community.
In stores and bazaars both radio transistors and batteries were exhausted and for many people it became the only medium where to obtain information about the impossibility of using mobile phones after several hours without coverage. The image was repeated in different places: people who went down to the street with a small radio in their hand and A corrillo was immediately formed around it to listen to what was counted in the waves. This happened to the journalist Andrea Aldana, who did not hesitate to share her portable radio so that other pedestrians in Madrid could be informed, as she said on the social network X.
In the SER in Barcelona chain, seeing that the blackout was a generalized problem, they decided to take out the speakers to the street so that people could listen to the information, since there were many people who went to the door of the station to try to know what was happening in more detail. “People approached the radio, first were corrillos and then there were many people sitting on the sidewalk. In the end we have taken the speakers,” said a station of the station in the city.
The radio was the only connection that remained yesterday for many people and sounded both on the street, as well as In stations, bars, schools or mechanical workshopsin addition to being the medium they turned to in many houses. As has happened in other times of crisis, such as Dana or Pandemia, the radio has demonstrated again in this unpublished blackout in Spain that remains one of the most wanted media.
“Radio never fails,” he tells Infobae Spain Luis Cáceres, a mail worker who yesterday did not hesitate to resort to this medium and inform anyone who was asking him. “In my house there is always one of batteries, but working I use the car in the day to day,” he explains.
Without light or electricity, there were many people who yesterday They searched the bottom of the drawers His old battery radio to find out of today or even used “the one that his daughters won years ago in a bowling alley and that only works with helmets,” as happened to Lydia’s aunt, a 25 -year -old Madrid girl, a device that at least served them at home to spend informed during the day.
-In some elderly residences the situation was totally different, since Many users usually have portable radios“And it was they who were informing what was happening,” a worker of the geriatric Ballesol in Madrid tells this newspaper. “They also told us what was happening that approached by car and who were listening to the radio.”
With the collapsed roads and vehicles that slowly advanced with the windows down by heat, many people also approached what they could, while in the La Rosa Okupado Social Centerlocated in the Madrid neighborhood of La Latina, they did not hesitate to share the radio with the neighbors, taking out a large speaker.
From the SER chain they have explained that they could inform uninterruptedly “thanks to the maintenance of the generator sets that pull the antenna fed by gasoline”, although they had to look for more diesel traveling different service stations to be able to maintain the autonomy for longer.
According to Red Eléctrica, at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday the service has already been restored almost completely after Yesterday at 12.33 noon Much of the country ran out of light, although the service was returning to different points of the geography throughout the day.
The demand dropped 40% of the normal and still investigates what could happen. The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, explained on Monday night that in just five seconds they had disappeared “15 GW of electricity generation, equivalent to 60% of demand From the country at that time, something that had never happened. “” What happened? It is not yet known, “Sánchez said to assert that” no hypotheses is ruled out. “
