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BLACKOUT CHAOS Panic-buying hits Spain & Portugal leaving shelves bare as shoppers in ‘dark age’ after power cut ‘from freak weather’

Shoppers are stockpiling groceries amid fears of imminent shortages

PANIC-stricken shoppers in Spain and Portugal are clearing shelves and leaving supermarkets empty after a catastrophic power outage.

Airports and hospitals shut down and trains screeched to a halt across the peninsula - with officials blaming a "rare atmospheric phenomenon".

Alarming pictures posted on social media show bare supermarket shelves after panic-shopping swept across the affected regions.

Footage shows people forming huge queues outside grocery stores and ATMs to stockpile essential items amid fears the mayhem could last for days.

And there are fears that thugs will exploit the chaos and darkness to loot shops after nightfall.

One shopper Alfonso Romay wrote on X: “It’s incredible, the collective paranoia. The power goes out for five hours, and look at the supermarket.

“The water jugs in the image lasted less than one minute.”

Roads in Spain, Portugal and parts of were left snarled up with traffic as lights and signals went blank - with emergency officers drafted in to tackle the bedlam.

Some hospitals cancelled all surgeries for Monday amid fears for patient safety in the region's most severe blackout for years.

Spain's train service came to a complete stop, leaving huge crowds stranded at stations, and Madrid's underground network was evacuated.

But Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez confirmed that power has been restored in some areas of the north and south of Spain.

Air traffic was slashed to "half capacity" as flights were cancelled from a number of airports - with Lisbon cancelling all arrivals for hours.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34685709/spain-portugal-power-cuts-internet/

Wonderful!!!!....Wonder shall never end in oyinbo land.

Just for fear of few days of chaos of blackout??......And these Whitees are running helter skelter??
In my own country, I am so used to blackout to the extent a 3hours uninterrupted power supply would seem to me as though all is not well from those Manning our National grid.....

OMG!!! What kind of a country have I found myself??........

To these Spaniards and Portuguese, A blackout even if its for 10minutes is a Sacrilege!! A collossal Taboo

We are used to blackout in Nigeria. They should calm down.
I have stayed blackout for 6months.

Here, we don't panic over power outage.

I hope no be microwave meals.....cos no light!

The last time the world had panic buying was during the Covid 19 lockdown and pandemic.

It was maddtt

If it happened in Nigeria, someone would go on Twitter to sing songs of lamentation to blame the government for the collapse of the national grid.

His party is collapsing, but he can't deal with it.

😄😁😂🤣we are not alone.

They thought the world is coming to an end.


Chai!!!

Blackout that is our heritage in Nigeria.

Things are happening.

They should not infect us with their problems at this time of our life.

We don’t need their flesh pressing on our bone.

Okay

emkz:
If it happened in Nigeria, someone would go on Twitter to sing songs of lamentation to blame the government for the collapse of the national grid.

His party is collapsing, but he can't deal with it.

We never had light in the first place.
I'm somewhere in Kwara North, locals told me that they had power last in 2019, how can we be proud of a Nation like this? A whole Local Government Area

Lol...them no understand up nepa

Nigeria is still living in the 19th century. What we're generating for a 200m population is what cities of less 1m people are using in developed countries.

emkz:
If it happened in Nigeria, someone would go on Twitter to sing songs of lamentation to blame the government for the collapse of the national grid.

His party is collapsing, but he can't deal with it.

I was expecting this senseless comment.

Is there light in Nigeria in the first place to start with?

emkz:
If it happened in Nigeria, someone would go on Twitter to sing songs of lamentation to blame the government for the collapse of the national grid.

His party is collapsing, but he can't deal with it.

It is your community chief them for blame for collapse of national grid na. Making excuses for incompetence

They should come to Nigeria to learn survival. Only power blackout they are panicking. Abeg next news

GanagiBitrus:
Here, we don't panic over power outage.

Baba, you are 100% correct. We wey dem use torch light born and hand fan be our AC?
Hahaha

𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝐴𝑏𝑒𝑔 , 𝑁𝑜 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 💨 7:53

emkz:
If it happened in Nigeria, someone would go on Twitter to sing songs of lamentation to blame the government for the collapse of the national grid.

His party is collapsing, but he can't deal with it.

Such widespread outages are unusual in Europe.

In 2003 a problem with a hydroelectric power line between Italy and Switzerland caused a major outage across the whole Italian peninsula for around 12 hours.


In 2006 an overloaded power network in caused electricity cuts across parts of the country and in , Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and as far as Morocco.

But Nigeria, national grid dey collapse more than 12 times a year.

I one time when we small, in primary school then, transformer blow for 1 year no light. 😅

Effects of Bur:ki:na fa:so.

Abbeyme:
The last time the world had panic buying was during the Covid 19 lockdown and pandemic.

It was maddtt

Poverty mentality

Change this to Nigeria and hear the Agulu fraud and his minions crucify the country.

merits:
😄😁😂🤣we are not alone.

I haven't seen long ght 8 says straight. What should I do? Go panic buying?

Ontop no light shey they don't have generator . We that stay days without light. Years back I serve in a local govt in edo , they don't even have electricity . No wires on their poles . For the one year I served there , I stayed in total darkness

emkz:
If it happened in Nigeria, someone would go on Twitter to sing songs of lamentation to blame the government for the collapse of the national grid.

His party is collapsing, but he can't deal with it.

I have a proposal for you. DM me please

I am sure Nigerians will engage in such behaviour if there is uninterrupted power supply

This people need Tinubu and shettima to rule them, so they can calm down

Blackout is Tinubu's achievement
na APc dey run am