Five things that needed to make it through a power cut

The power comes out and nothing works. How will I be throughout the day?

This was the question that millions of people were facing during the worst electric war in Monday and during the Portugal.

We ask people without electricity that they do not have their day with life and how many works are not short.

Payment with the phone and card has become norms, but in Spanish and Portuguese cities, cash machines – at least employees, as the shops move away from card payments.

“When the interval first initiates, (but later), we could not get anything,” Ed Rowe, 26, Madrid told the BBC.

“All restaurants that are open have just earned money.”

32, 32 graceyaries living in the Spanish capital, said he was counting money to see if his mother and mother had enough money to buy wine from a corner store.

“Cash is in fact the king.”

28-year-old Jaime Giorgio, was lucky to eat him and earn some money to those who eat and others.

“It was quite chaotic in Madrid, there was no pipe and no money will be removed.

“I had cash but I didn’t have a straight companion, so I had to borrow money to buy items.”

Power cut caused a data to darken the day for people to spend the day without internet, whatsapp, calls and TV.

“Completely a loss of communication was the most confusing and related thing … We just reported the news and part of the people in the neighborhood and Barcelona.

42-year-old, lack of information, said that the planes are still flying, he said.

For Siegfried and Christine Buschler, the old wind transistor radio helped to learn what happened after the suspension of phones in local radio stations and took place in the village house outside the Spanish capital.

82, Christine explained: “You should continue to live and walk.

“This was a very strange situation. I was born in Berlin during the war and reminded me of the days of my parents trying to get a little news.”

According to the account, the demand will increase the demand for the cutting and battery radios.

It is also on the shopping list of Daniel. “The main set of communication to return to the main communication and remembered that I was completely indifferent.”

Microwave microwave, air fries and some dishes and all requirements of the ovens are electricity.

But Monday was required to eat the food to heat or prepare electricity.

The echoing scenes from the Covenant-19 pandemia – the grounds, which are long-term and panic in supermarkets, buyers.

The actor Jaime says: We have taken many meals like tuna in Cans, only in the canvas, “he said.

“The collapse lasted only one day and now has a lot of food, but most easily protected because it is easily protected.”

Lesley elder, in Fortuna in Southeast Spain, said: “We are trying to find food that does not need to heat, it was more difficult than we thought.

“Thus, we have ended the ham and cheese for lunch.”

Added a little gas stove to heat a dish in a pan.

People in the Iber peninsula turned into candles to illuminate dark spaces.

Richard, who lives in Alcala, Spain, said he did not have a street light when night.

“People found the way by the torches. We have seen a completely black, especially as I live next to double road part,” he said.

“In my spare time, there are a few people in the darkness of several people, candles and happiness.”

Sarah Baxter, from Barcelona, ​​said he also used a pine stovetop to heat the dish.

“We can warm the beans and rice and bring water to a boil for instant potatoes,” he said.

“A propane camp inside the apartment was safer than the stove.”

Even if the candles and naked flames can create a fire risk.

They trust the battery on people’s devices without any energy.

In Madrid, people were left out of technological stores to get their hands on a power bank.

Fortunately, for Sarah, he had a solar charger that helped him to hold his phone from the dark and older neighbor.

Lesley, his fuel fled from the battery. “There is no television, there is no sliding puzzle on my phone. It would be useful to have several books,” he said.

However, for others, it was a relief without access to the Internet and their devices.

“Everyone is a more beautiful reminder that he trusts in technology,” he said, “he said.

“It’s not necessary to contact everyone all the time,” he said. I had a good time with my homes. ”

24-year-old Sara Francisco, Leiria’dan, Central Portugal, said: “I feel this thing that happens to be more aware of our habits.”