How is the power outage between Spain and Portugal

The first sign of the problem that Peter Hughes noted was when the train to Madrid began to slow down.

Then TV monitors and lights turned off. Emergency lights are not on, but the locomotive surface has been stopped.

Four hours later, Hughes was still trapped in a 200 kilometer (124 miles) train in Spain. He had food and water, but the toilet did not work.

“It will be dark soon and we can be trapped here for hours,” the BBC said.

The large -scale power cuts of Hughes stranded were confused throughout Spain and Portugal, and also affected Andora and part of France at noon local time (10:00 GMT).

The traffic light is turned off. Metro is closed. The business was closed and people chose to get cash because the card payment was not effective.

Jonathan Emery was on a half -different train between Seville and Madrid when the cut came up.

For an hour, he closed the door until he sat on the train and closed the door and opened the open place to release the ventilation. After 30 minutes, the passengers left.

At that time, local villagers began to drop items such as water, bread and fruits.

“Nobody charges anything, and people keep coming around in the local village because people keep coming.”

Madrid’s commuters were confused in the dark when the blackout hit the metro station network in the city. Sarah Jovovich, a resident, was getting off the train when the fire was turned off.

She told the BBC that people were “hysterical” and “embarrassed.” “I was really confused.”

The cell phone stopped working and no one had information. After leaving the metro station, she found a road with a lot of traffic.

“No one understood. The business was closed and the bus was full,” she said.

Hannah Lowney was in the middle after scanning grocery shopping in Aldi when power came out of the Spanish capital.

Lowney said in a voice message sent to the BBC Radio 5 Live that people came out of the office and walked home.

“I’m a bit embarrassed to be the whole country,” she said.

Mark England is spending a vacation at Benidorm at a lunch at a hotel restaurant and “everything has disappeared, a fire alarm begins and the fire door has begun to close.”

In Lisbon’s international school, electricity has been forgot for a while, and Emily Thorowgood said.

She continues to teach in the dark and teaches children with good souls, but many parents are taking children from school, she said.

The British Will David in Lisbon, when the power broke down, trimmed the haircuts and beards in the basement of the barber. The barber finished the cut with scissors next to the window.

“The promenade is a complete free for the car and pedestrians on the road because of the lack of traffic lights, and it feels very strange that many people push what they can’t do outside their workshops.”

At first, the mobile phone network also went down for some and left a lot of scrambling for information.

Cutis Gladden in La Vall D ‘UIXO, about 30 miles from Valencia, said that it was “scary”, struggling to get an update on what is happening.

Eloise Edgington, who could not do anything as a copywriter in Barcelona, ​​said she was sometimes receiving a message, couldn’t load a web page on the phone, and tried to save batteries.

A resident of Fortuna in the southeastern Spain said he is trying to find a gasoline role that can supply fuel to operate a generator and supply fuel to supply the refrigerator for an hour and a half after the power is turned off.

“We are worried about food, water, cash and gasoline,” Leslie, who has lived in Spain for 11 years.

She said that locals are more worried than the locals are interrupted.

England said he was walking on Benidorm.

After about two hours of the telephone signal of Gladden, he and others went to the cafe, but “nothing worked -we came to get food and drinks, but I can’t cook without electricity.”

Within two hours, Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica said he began to restore power in the north and south of the country.

But two and a half hours after the cut, the Madrid Market José Luis Martínez-Almeida still urged all residents to “maintain the minimum and maintain the minimum value in the video recorded at the city’s integrated emergency security center.”

At 15:00 local time, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gathered a “special” meeting of the Spanish National Security Council.

Eduardo Prieto, the CEO of Red Electrica, said that it could take “6 to 10 hours” to restore power shortly after a press conference.

Just before 16:00, electricity popped out of Malaga. Until 17:00, the grid operator said, “The power is restoring in various parts of the Iberia Peninsula.

REN, a Portuguese power company, gave a more serious prediction that “it can take a week until a week before the network returns to normal.”

Later, an emergency was proclaimed throughout Spain, and the region may request special measures.

But on Monday evening, Sanchez said 50%of its power was restored throughout Spain and REN was restored to 750,000 customers. But many remain without power.

The knock effect continues: The backup generator of the airport began, and most flights could leave on time, but some could not operate.

Tom McGilloway, who spent a vacation in Lisbon, was scheduled to return to London on Monday night, but he didn’t know what would happen early in the evening.

He said for the time being that people are receiving drinks and food. But the supplier said that the battery can continue to work until it falls from the payment terminal.

“If the plane is canceled, if you need to book a hotel, I don’t know what you can do if you pay down.”

“My parents of my partner are trying to get gasoline, so we can pick us to take us to take it to Alentejo, but many gasoline stations don’t close or pay. We may have no plans to stay tonight.”

Spanish violinist ISAAC BIFET went to rehearsal at Madrid’s Symphony Orchestra in the morning. But the buildings were all dark and other orchestra players were not stranded without traffic.

He told the BBC because people without cash were especially fixed, because the BBC was down because the online payment system was down.

BIFET said that the day without power was “strange” and “small medieval”. But “The atmosphere was actually pretty good.”

And as electricity still appeared in his apartment, he sent a beer with his friends in the evening.

Ande Massiah, Kris Bramwell, James Kelly, Bernadette McCague and Josh Parry