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Posted: 29 Apr 2025

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As you might know we had a general blackout which affected the whole Iberian Peninsula all day yesterday. In Penedos light just came back today at 01:14 am, so no communications at all yesterday, a strange experience, candle lights in the evening and news only on car radio.
This made me realize how people un Cuba are living, they have been experiencing successive blackouts…

Nouchetdu38, Uwe Sasse, Edna Edenkoben, Jean-luc Drouin and 16 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Excellent shot! Happy to hear you have power again.

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18 months ago.
Xata club has replied to William Sutherland club
Obrigada William !
18 months ago.
 Franck Chabal
Franck Chabal club
Oui, nous sommes tributaires des nouvelles technologies, tout est géré par ordinateur de nos jours, et nous sommes à la merci d'actes malveillants de hackers (pour l'instant rien ne dit que la panne vient de là) ou des intempéries de plus en plus violentes qui provoquent la chute des arbres sur les lignes (comme chez moi en novembre 2013 où l'électricité a été coupée pendant 4 jours, heureusement j'ai mon poêle à bois comme chauffage complémentaire, et la cuisinière à gaz)
J'espère que tout est rentré dans l'ordre chez toi .
18 months ago.
Xata club has replied to Franck Chabal club
After 14 hours without it came back, everything working again. Here in small villages we have alternatives… people who live in big cities panic a lot, seem there has been a rush for toilet paper like in covid times, I really don’t understand why this is a priority, as long as we have water and soap !
Thanks for your concern, merci, obrigada
18 months ago.
Franck Chabal club has replied to Xata club
En parlant de papier toilette, les gens sont vraiment ridicules.. Je plains par contre tous ceux qui sont restés bloqués dans les gares ou les aéroports, les toilettes ont dues être rapidement saturées!!!! Oui, dans nos petits villages nous sommes plus pragmatiques! :o)
18 months ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
love this, the R4 was one of my "love" when I was young:)
18 months ago.
 Jo WaLo
Jo WaLo club
Ich hatte zwei R4, einen in beige und einen in dunkelgrün. Diese Autos haben richtig Spaß gemacht!
18 months ago.
Xata club has replied to Jo WaLo club
Here many people still have them going !
18 months ago.
 Ern Jacoby
Ern Jacoby club
Must be really a strange experience! wish all of you the best
18 months ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
Great to see the R4 again. Yes, your blackouts made the worldwide news.
18 months ago.
 Malik Raoulda
Malik Raoulda club
C'est vraiment étrange cette coupure de courant , j'imagine ces moments passés dans le noir ou a la lumière des bougies.
Heureusement que tout est rentré dans l'ordre.
Bonne et heureuse journée paisible et reposante.
18 months ago.
Xata club has replied to Malik Raoulda club
Causes are not yet known... well candlelight was fine, no communications too, if one takes it as a break to reflect on how lucky we are to have all this modern stuff to serve us !
As long as we have water and some way to ccook whatever food we can have it is fine. I grew up without electricity and I still remember what our luxuries could be: a petromax was a must !
18 months ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club
A lovely photo of "everyday things" Isabel.

I've been following the story of the power cuts in our news..........but no one seems to want to comment on the causes yet!

I hope it doesn't happen again...........but I've a feeling that it won't bother you too much if it does :-))
18 months ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
Roger (Grisly) club
Pleased life is returning to normal Isabel,
Throwing out the old and replacing with new technology is always a risk, and they are also at risk from those with less than good intentions.
The soft light of candles sound relaxing!
18 months ago.
 menonfire
menonfire club
Auch ein Auto muss mal trocknen;-)
18 months ago.
 Boarischa Krautmo
Boarischa Krautmo club
a good picture anyway....
18 months ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Great blue and white composition! The blackout has shown again how dependent we are on electricity for everything- analogue as a fallback isn't such a bad idea;-)
18 months ago.
 Edna Edenkoben
Edna Edenkoben club
My kind of photo :-)

I heard about the blackout, it must have been quite a choas. It can happen anywhere... and if it's only for a day, it's bearable, but nobody knows this when it happens...

I hope everything is ok again in Portugal.
18 months ago.
Xata club has replied to Edna Edenkoben club
I was in the village luckily, if I was in Monte Gordo I don’t know I would have managed with old Torak that cannot do stairs…. as he weights 16kgs and I live on top floor.
In the village people were not scared, everyone has candles and other alternative solutions for electricity. Only thing was no communications but I can say it was somewhat soothing!
In towns crazy rush in supermarkets for anything like if we were at the brink of general collapse !!! I don’t understand such overreaction.
Everything is ok, supermarkets waiting to have shelves full again as I have been told…
18 months ago. Edited 18 months ago.

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