Weird day yesterday as the lights went out at 12.30, as did any sort of information on the mobile phone.
What looked like a minor inconvenience spiralled. The o ly information was in the car radio, when I found out at 2pm it was the whole of Spain and Portugal plunged into chaos. Losing traffic lights in the major cities ground them to a halt, the train lines were all knocked out, and people were trapped on high speed trains that had no speed at all. And through it all, no real idea what was happening.
We were told that the system.would come back in between 6 and 10bhours and effectively that was what happened, as the places near the French border started getting electric from France and the effect spread.
But the trains are still out in Catalunya, and there's still no explanation in the offing.
For anyone who saw the film Leave The World Behind, we had a brief taste yesterday.
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I know the press are reporting it as something, I wonder if this will happen in different countries, hope Charlton Life have got back up servers!
I expect the company I mentioned a while back on here who provide services & consult on grid resiliency/storage will be put on a hell of a day rate to provide advice on ensuring this doesn't happen again 🤣
Word on the street yesterday afternoon was a cyber attack, but nobody I've heard has given that any credence.
We were in a small town so apart from lack of information and hot food, the major inconvenience was living by candlelight. But it did show how utterly useless our house is when the current is gone.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w182z9868o.amp
HTH
As far as I know our internet worked all evening.
We lost our internet so did not realise until well in to the afternoon from our neighbour how bad the situation was. My wife went straight out to grab some shopping but all the large supermarkets were shut and the one smaller shop that had stayed open could only accept cash but we only had 2 euros on us! Went to the cash machines but they were all shut down so my wife picked up two hotdog type rolls which was all we could afford! We had a little cheese in the fridge and had that with some jam in the rolls.
By 8pm and with no candles, we were sat in the pitch black starving, two phones with no juice left, no internet and wondering what the hell we were going to do the following day! Then thankfully at 21:30 everything pinged back on.
I think I will put together a little survival kit in case of any repeat power outages!
I would be surprised if it wasn't.
Fortunately we had bacon,eggs, tomatoes and bread plus a gas cooker oh, and 2 litres of Sangria so survived.
He's got to say this because investigations into events like this are extremely complex and take a lot of time. You don't rule anything out a day after it happened, and it's political suicide for him to say 'we didn't spend enough money on it, or do enough DR testing' while people are still feeling rhe knock on effects
Of course, you may say that's all just a coincidence and these things happen, but you wont convince me it wasn't the Russians trying to interrupt my viewing of New Tricks. Or the Chinese. Or aliens.