Spain, Portugal work to fix massive power outage – DW – 04/28/2025
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There is currently no power in the Iberian Peninsula. It has been going for about 9 hours now. Yet on Lemmy, I feel like no one talk about this huge international event.

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 hours ago

      First I’ve heard of it, and I’ve checked lemmy at least four times today

    • pseudo@jlai.luOP
      101·
      11 hours ago

      I watched the first two pages of All on both Hot and Active and I could find mention of it. I thought it would be today’s main focus on Lemmy but somehow not even a little bit.

  • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    It was a failure of the interconnection between France and Spain after a sudden drop in power, but no reports of what caused the drop yet.

    Have you heard any theories about what it could have been that caused the drop?.

  • dan@upvote.au
    391·
    11 hours ago

    Yet on Lemmy, I feel like no one talk about this huge international event.

    Maybe because the people that are affected don’t have power.

    • Skimflux@lemmy.world
      21·
      11 hours ago

      Maybe because the people that are affected don’t have power.

      Can confirm - we just got our power back (I’m in Lisbon). We had internet access for the first hour or so, but after that we were offline for several hours. Most of my family (outside of Lisbon) are still unreachable.

      • ijedi1234@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        7 hours ago

        I would like to speculate that the entire Iberian peninsula has fallen into the Atlantic. Andorra is coastline now.

    • Pixelotes@lemmy.world
      12·
      10 hours ago

      That’s right. We spent most day in Spain without power, internet or cellphones. The only working news source was the good old FM radio.

      • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I always consider buying a hand cranked FM radio for Hurricane season, but always talk myself out of it. I think you just inspired me to finally just do it.

        Have you heard anything about what might have caused the drop in power?

      • dan@upvote.au
        5·
        10 hours ago

        My emergency kit has a radio with AM / FM / NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA) and a hand crank to charge its battery for exactly this reason.

          • dan@upvote.au
            4·
            5 hours ago

            :(

            At least I live in an area where the most likely disaster is an earthquake that destroys the entire area, and I’m not sure how useful weather alerts would be in that case.