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Power outage hits large parts of Spain and Portugal

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/

 

MADRID/LISBON, April 28 (Reuters) - Spain and Portugal were hit by a widespread power outage on Monday that paralysed public transport, caused large traffic jams and delayed flights.
Utility operators sought to restore the grid but Spanish electricity transmission operator Red Eléctrica said the outage, the cause of which was not immediately known, could last from six to 10 hours. Officials said the possibility that it was caused by a cyber attack had not been ruled out.
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33 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

Power outage hits large parts of Spain and Portugal

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/

 

MADRID/LISBON, April 28 (Reuters) - Spain and Portugal were hit by a widespread power outage on Monday that *paralysed public transport, caused large traffic jams and delayed flights.
Utility operators sought to restore the grid but Spanish electricity transmission operator Red Eléctrica said the outage, the cause of which was not immediately known, could last from six to 10 hours. Officials said the possibility that it was caused by a cyber attack had not been ruled out.

* paralyzed 

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Pablo 

8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Their grid operator, EL ERCOTO, was not available for comment.

Hmmm... is Pablo Vegas based out of Madrid these days?

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4 minutes ago, beer said:

Not that bad. I'm in Marbella. Old ladies buying all the bread. I could only order cold tapas and you have to pay cash. Beer is getting a little warm.I need to write a strongly worded letter to the Red Electrical company. 

Traffic circles everywhere are the norm so traffic is ok. Worst part is internet went down at 1230 and it's just now coming back (it's 545pm now). No TV. The German school near me went to all day recess so the kids were being loud all afternoon and screaming about invading Poland and shit. 

They said it was heat related but only got up to about 75 today here. I had no idea this was kind of a big deal until I tried to go down the mountain where I live to eat and the internet came back on and I saw this thread. I just thought my neighborhood went out.  Oh, no ice cream at the supermarket, they taped everything shut. 

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24 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Dry run for Russian hackers for the impending invasion of Europe?

Spain said it wasn't hackers.....So it was probably hackers.

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Am in Tavira (southeastern Portugal), power went out about 11:30 am local and came back on about 45 minutes ago. Tavira is chill; some restaurants stayed open until it got too dark in the kitchens; other than that everyone just sat around outside drinking beer and wine (can't let it go bad, ya know). Local loja (bodega) run by Indian dudes had candles everywhere and a big sack of money to make change. As I mentioned, Tavira is pretty chill. Whole town cheered when the power came back on.

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46 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

other than that everyone just sat around outside drinking beer and wine

So it was a Monday as usual in Southern Europe. 

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1 hour ago, flatdawgs said:

Am in Tavira (southeastern Portugal), power went out about 11:30 am local and came back on about 45 minutes ago. Tavira is chill; some restaurants stayed open until it got too dark in the kitchens; other than that everyone just sat around outside drinking beer and wine (can't let it go bad, ya know). Local loja (bodega) run by Indian dudes had candles everywhere and a big sack of money to make change. As I mentioned, Tavira is pretty chill. Whole town cheered when the power came back on.

Heaven?

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51 minutes ago, ztejas said:

So it was a Monday as usual in Southern Europe. 

True fact.  Tomato Europe, generally not operating as smoothly as potato Europe.  Generally better grub, though.

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2 hours ago, ztejas said:

So it was a Monday as usual in Southern Europe. 

that's why I'm here

 

2 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Heaven?

Close as I'll ever get....

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não falo inglês
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4 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Would you say it was just like heaven?

Daylight licked me into shape
I must've been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

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7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Well, you're in Eastern Tennessee now, so what's the difference?

Tell me you've never spent much time in Tennessee or West Virginia without telling me you've never spent much time in Tennessee and West Virginia. While we do have mountain mamas and moon shine, the Shenandoah runs east. 

I'm in Central Tennessee where I belong. 

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16 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

Well, I've been to Oklahoma, but I sure as hell wasn't born there

Well, there may or may not be rain on that plain but for damn sure the wind comes sweeping down.

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