Spain blackout

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22635

I got an interesting message from my Spanish ex about people’s experience over the couple of days Spain had no electricity.

I

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n a day like the one we lived yesterday, and that will certainly leave a mark on our human lives.
Magic suddenly sprouted on the streets, in the neighborhoods... just for a few hours. Without barely realizing between laughter and chats, complicit glances... the children's games on the street screaming jumping running to embrace the darkness.
I have to say I enjoyed watching them as much or more than they did.! Not a mobile phone on would break that magic...

Eating dinner wrapped in the warmth of candles... For goodness sake.. that is priceless.

And aside from the chaos it entailed,
that settled into our lives suddenly without us asking.
You could reflect on our evolution, where we are heading and what will be the toll that the vast majority of our children will have to pay.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2025 1:11 pm

I have a friend there and he had similar thoughts. Strangely he said my watts app messages got through but Spanish ones did not??????

Grayhoundend · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:13 pm **Posts:** 7200

Like when you go to bed at night, Turn off the light lie back.
The Dark and quiet are priceless.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37138

They kept saying it was down to an ‘atmospheric event’….but no one actually explained what it meant…which sounds like bullshit to me.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2025 3:31 pm

Grayhoundend wrote:

Like when you go to bed at night, Turn off the light lie back.
The Dark and quiet are priceless.

Yes and release a ceiling cracking fart and drift off into a blissful sleep

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37138

Bluestreak wrote:

Grayhoundend wrote:

Like when you go to bed at night, Turn off the light lie back.
The Dark and quiet are priceless.

Yes and release a ceiling cracking fart and drift off into a blissful sleep

Followed by a black eye. bbolt

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37138

What I found interesting amongst the shallow media shower was their concern about the internet and mobile phones being down…bugger hospitals, people in lifts etc.

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2025 5:03 pm

More than likely just a test run to see what sort of reaction you would get from the population if this was to happen. Better to "plan for" than "react to".

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37138

We still need to know what happened, bland excuses tell us nothing.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19437

Snowy wrote:

What I found interesting amongst the shallow media shower was their concern about the internet and mobile phones being down…bugger hospitals, people in lifts etc.

thing is for many is that the mobile phone is the most important part of there lives and will be lost without it. been in a minority most of my life but now not owning one seems a real stand out thing to cause comments on how do i manage. answer a lot bloody quietly than you.

Colin Jack · **Joined:** Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:00 pm **Posts:** 159

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

I got an interesting message from my Spanish ex about people’s experience over the couple of days Spain had no electricity.

I

Quote:

n a day like the one we lived yesterday, and that will certainly leave a mark on our human lives.
Magic suddenly sprouted on the streets, in the neighborhoods... just for a few hours. Without barely realizing between laughter and chats, complicit glances... the children's games on the street screaming jumping running to embrace the darkness.
I have to say I enjoyed watching them as much or more than they did.! Not a mobile phone on would break that magic...

Eating dinner wrapped in the warmth of candles... For goodness sake.. that is priceless.

And aside from the chaos it entailed,
that settled into our lives suddenly without us asking.
You could reflect on our evolution, where we are heading and what will be the toll that the vast majority of our children will have to pay.

The Miners Strike had a similar effect on its communities. People went back to basics and the simpler things in life came back into fashion, although it was tough, many still say it was the happiest of times in lots of other ways. Probably why people on old photographs generally seem a lot happier in the impoverished times before WW2 than many people do today. Just take a look at the tv and some of the faces of people at football games, many of them look as though they've been forced at gun point to attend.

Materialism can make people sick, and I think that is what is happening in the Western World.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37138

It’s the daft things…during the Miners strike I got home from college one Friday night during the power cut and was in a rush to get changed and out…I had my two candles to get ready by and decided to put on some music ….and couldn’t understand why the bloody radio was playing up banghead

….shouting downstairs and my dads shouting ‘Stick a bloody candle up it yer daft bugger’. Penny dropped

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19437

Colin Jack wrote:

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

I got an interesting message from my Spanish ex about people’s experience over the couple of days Spain had no electricity.

I

Quote:

n a day like the one we lived yesterday, and that will certainly leave a mark on our human lives.
Magic suddenly sprouted on the streets, in the neighborhoods... just for a few hours. Without barely realizing between laughter and chats, complicit glances... the children's games on the street screaming jumping running to embrace the darkness.
I have to say I enjoyed watching them as much or more than they did.! Not a mobile phone on would break that magic...

Eating dinner wrapped in the warmth of candles... For goodness sake.. that is priceless.

And aside from the chaos it entailed,
that settled into our lives suddenly without us asking.
You could reflect on our evolution, where we are heading and what will be the toll that the vast majority of our children will have to pay.

The Miners Strike had a similar effect on its communities. People went back to basics and the simpler things in life came back into fashion, although it was tough, many still say it was the happiest of times in lots of other ways. Probably why people on old photographs generally seem a lot happier in the impoverished times before WW2 than many people do today. Just take a look at the tv and some of the faces of people at football games, many of them look as though they've been forced at gun point to attend.

Materialism can make people sick, and I think that is what is happening in the Western World.

faces like that at modern football reflects society as everything is so serious nowadays down to if you make a joke out of something people say you are not taking the topic seriously enough. we need the glums back to represent the modern world and not the comedy with jimmy edwards and june whitfield either.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19437

Snowy wrote:

It’s the daft things…during the Miners strike I got home from college one Friday night during the power cut and was in a rush to get changed and out…I had my two candles to get ready by and decided to put on some music ….and couldn’t understand why the bloody radio was playing up banghead

….shouting downstairs and my dads shouting ‘Stick a bloody candle up it yer daft bugger’. Penny dropped

surprised you were not shocked when your car headlights still worked in the power cuts. now you would have to show your solidarity by leaving them switched off.

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