Out of what is the economically most privileged world, in reality the big blackouts They are quite frequent. In Cuba, for example, it is so common that there is not enough electricity generation to meet the country’s demand that the blackouts are regulated by the Government: by decree, Cubans must face, provided that the supply is insufficient, long blackouts of more than 72 hours duration.
If compared, then, the surrounding blackout 10 hours That took place in Spain this Monday, April 28, having to spend three days without light every indefinite interval of time, it immediately loses quite weight. Not so for the citizens of the country, who have lived it with uncertainty – Although, in general, in the air, tranquility was breathed -, especially due to the lack of information at all times, at least until, around 20:30, electricity began to return, progressively, in different areas of the country.
When the Internet has fallen, with any electrical device connected to the current, many will have been clear to them: it all depends on the electricity grid. Many are the shops that have had to put the sheet – if they were lucky that it was manual and not electric – for not being able to accept card payments; The subway has been paralyzed, just like The entire rail system; parents have collected their children from school; workers have had to sign early; People have been having to walk hours to return their homes; Already people, who looked dark and without knowing why, there has been no other than to remember how the world worked before all that of electric current and the internet.
An anonymous resident of Malasaña (Madrid), for example, shared with Infobae As, for learning of something, he went out and, hearing a radio through the window of a neighbor, decided to stay close to listen to the information. There, sitting, he noticed that many people “in the street spoke to you and it was FLEJE Human, because as I had no battery on the mobile they began to speak. And all with the same anecdote of ‘Tomorrow I will not work’ or ‘Well, I cannot communicate with my family, but here we are. ” And I had batteries, I put it and worked, and here it was, With the radio on, trying to listen to news“That’s right: beyond the people who dedicated themselves, alarmed, to try to stock up on food” just in case “(as every time the situation seems to twist) this Monday, April 28, true success has been made by candles, flashlights, batteries, and above all: radios.
Disconnected from their relatives and in need of information, many are the neighbors who have launched the bazaars to try to get some radio that, not depending on the current or the internet, has been throughout today The only constant information channel. Such has been the stir, that many people, unable to get a radio, have hooked the first they have seen to find out, even if it was little, what was happening. According to Europa Pressat 13:30 on Monday, just an hour after every screen and bulb passed black, batteries had already been exhausted in the bazaars that were still open. “Do you have radios?” Asked a neighbor of Chamartín in a bazaar in the neighborhood – in which there was a long line to buy candles and lighters -, but, unfortunately, many people had already had the same idea: “We only have radios to plug, from which they are not worth.”
