How was power outage in Spain and Portugal

Peter Hughes’s first sign that the difference was when Madrid train began to slow down.

Then went to the TV monitor and lights. Emergency lights were burned, but the last and locomotive pitch stopped.

Four hours later, Mr. Hughes still stood in a train of 200 kilometers (124 miles) outside the Spanish capital. There was food and juice, but toilets did not work.

“We will be dark soon and we can stick here for hours,” he said.

Mr. Hughes’s massive power from Spain and Portuguese and French parts of Portugal and France, which affects some parts of France from local time (10:00 GMT).

Traffic lights are closed. Metros were closed. Enterprises were closed and people joined shifts to get cash as card payments.

Jonathan Emery was in a half-train between Seville and Madrid when cuts were shot.

Within an hour, sat on the train, the doors were closed, people began to be open for ventilation. In half an hour, passengers left only to find themselves closed.

These people from local villages began to supply and water, bread and fruit.

“No one is charging for something and the people just keep coming, because words need to walk in the local city,” he said.

Hannah Lowney in Madrid, was half a way by scanning the grocery shopping when the power came out.

People walked in their offices and at home because they could not say the buses came, MS Lowney, BBC Radio 5 said in a voice message in the sound message.

“This is a little worried that I have ever had the whole country,” he said.

Mark England, “Everything came out and the fire signal began to be turned off and the fire gates began to close and the fire did not be closed,” he had a lunch at the hotel’s restaurant.

At a time in an international school in Lisbon, a while, then the teacher Emily said Torboud.

In the dark, the children are teaching in a good spirit, but many parents said they were out of school.

A British David, who lives in Lisbon, made hair in a hairdresser’s basement when the power fell down and was a beard trim. The hairdresser found him a place above the window above the window to cut him with scissors.

“HOME, both felt very strange, but also means something completely free for vehicles and pedestrians on the roads, but many people have mills with no jobs outside the jobs,” he said.

First, mobile phone networks, leaving many leaps for some information fell down for some.

Curencia in La Vall D’Uixo, Valencia’s Candis, which is about 30 miles, said he said, “frightened” because they are fighting for the occurrences.

Eloise Edgington, who could not do any work as a copyre in Barcelona, ​​said he just got random messages, he could not load websites and tried to maintain the battery.

After an hour and a half after the power of the power, Fortuna in the south-east of Spain, said he walked around trying to find a gas station that could provide a fuel to manage a husband and control the refrigerator.

“If it lasts a few days, we are worried about food, water, money and gasoline and gasoline,” he said, a Brit living in Spain for 11 years.

The locals said, “Be more worried” than Madrid’s open tennis tournament is suspended, he said he was “very little news about what happened.”

Mr. England walks on the street in Benidorm, “Most of the shops are in the dark or have people in getting in the dark.

Mr. boyfriend’s phone signal after about two hours later, others came to cafes, but “Nothing works – we came to buy a little food and drink.

For two hours, the Spanish electricity network operator has begun to restore the power of red electricity, the north and south of the country.

However, two hours after the cuts, Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida, all the residents called for “if they are in the minimum and possible,” he called on the city’s integrated ambulance center.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish National Security Council, has brought together the “Extraordinary” meeting of the Spanish National Security Council.

Red Electricity CEO Eduardo Prieto said at a press conference at a news conference, he said at a press conference “between six and ten-hour” to restore his power.

Electricity back in Malagade before 16:00. Up to 17:00, the Network Operator (IBERIA) Peninsula, in the north of the south and west, he said, he needed to restore the strength in several areas.

Portugal’s power firm Ren has gave a more terrifying forecast, saying that before returning to the normal state of the network.

Beating effects: Generators retracted at the airports, allowing the most flights to leave on time, but some could not act.

Tom McGilloway was on vacation in Lisbon, on Monday night to return to London, but did not know what happened in the evening.

He said when people took drinks and dishes – but sellers are able to work until it works in batteries.

“If a hotel needs to be ordered, if the plane is canceled, I do not know how to do it when payments are low,” he said.

“My partner’s parents are trying to buy gasoline, so they can take us back to the Alentejo, but they do not receive a charge of gas stations. We can get a fee. We can stay in this evening.”

Additional reports and research by Andre Massiah, Kris Bramwell, James Kelly, Bernadette McCague, Josh Parry and Naga Munchety