Five things you need in case of power outages

Power is outside and nothing works. How can I wander a day?

This was the question that millions of people face on Monday throughout Spain and Portugal during the worst power of electricity in their history.

We ask the people who spent today without electricity about what helped them to continue life and what basic they lost.

The payment of the phone and the card has become the standard, but in cities across Spain and Portugal, waiting lists were formed in cash machines – at least those that were still working – with stores turning from cards payments.

“We managed to pay the coffee with the card when the power out of the first time began, (but later) we had no money so that we could not buy something,” Ed Row, 26 in Madrid, told the BBC.

“All restaurants that were open were only criticism.”

Grace Olieri, 32, who also lives in the capital of Spain, said that she and her mother were calculating coins to see if she had enough money to buy wine from the corner store.

“Criticism, apparently, is in fact, the king.”

Jaime Giorgio, 28, was lucky enough to get some cash against him, allowing him to buy food and other necessities.

“In Madrid it was completely messy, there was no tube and could not get any money.

“I had money, but my apartment colleague did not do it, so I had to lend him money to buy things.”

The power outage also led to the information, as people spend today without the Internet, calls, calls and television.

“The full loss of the most confused and objective communication was … we only left to predict the reason and collect news from people in the neighborhood,” said Daniel Cling of Barcelona.

The 42 -year -old said that the absence of information led him to look at the sky to see if the planes were still flying.

For SiegFried and Christine Buschschlter, the old transistor radio in the transistor helped control local radio stations to find out what was happening after their phones stopped working and the authority exploded in their rural home outside the capital of Spain.

“You had to continue talisman and clinging,” Kristen, 82, said.

“It was a very strange situation. I was born in Berlin during the war and reminded me of those days when my parents tried to get some news – he brought me back.”

The couple believes that the power outages will lead to prosperity in the demand for battery radio devices.

He is also on the shopping list in Daniel. “A basic group to return to basic communication and stay in view that I completely neglected to remember it.”

Micro -waves require air clips and some hobbies and ovens of electricity.

But on Monday, the food that did not require electricity to heat or prepare it was in order.

In supermarkets, shoppers formed long lists and essentials purchased from panic-echoing scenes from the Covid-19s.

“We bought a lot of foods that will not explode, such as tuna in cans, just in case,” said actor Jaime.

“The power outage persists only a day and now we have a lot of food, but most of it will not go badly, because it is easily preserved.”

“Trying to find food you don’t need to heat, it was more difficult than we thought,” said Leslie Ellir, in the town of Fortona in southeast Spain.

“So we ended up having pork and cheese for dinner.”

It adds a little gas stove to heat the food in the pan.

Through the Iberian Peninsula, people turned to candles to light the dark spaces.

Richard, who lives in the Spanish city of Alcala de Hennaris, said it was not a single street light in the streets when the night fell.

He said: “People were finding their way through Torchlight. It was very surreal to seeing the scene from my window completely black, especially as I live next to a double road.”

“In my spare time, I made candles and fortunately I had a few spares so I could see it in the dark.”

Sarah Paxter, from Barcelona, ​​said that she used a Steofitop candle to heat the food.

She said, “We can heat the beans and rice, and bring water to the boiling of the instant potatoes,” she said.

“It was safer than the propane’s camping stove inside the apartment.”

Although candles and naked fire can pose a fire risk.

With no power, people relied on a battery in their devices.

In Madrid, people lined up outside technology stores to get their hands on the energy bank.

Fortunately for Sarah, she had a solar charger that kept her phone charged within ten hours of blackout, and helped her elderly neighbor to do the same.

Leslie says it was running out of the battery. She said, “There is no TV, nor a scribble puzzle on my phone. So the presence of two books was useful.”

But for others, the lack of access to the Internet and their devices was a relief.

“Everyone depends on technology so much that it is a very nice reminder that you can be more independent,” said Ed.

“You don’t have to be connected to everyone all the time, and his colleague in the apartment, Hana Steiner, 23, said.” I was spending fun with my colleagues in the apartment. ”

“I feel that this thing that happened was important to make us more aware and to be more aware of our customs,” said Sarah Francisco, 24, from Lyria, in the middle of Portugal.