When the lights went out, the cell phones lost coverage, and word began to spread like wildfire that it was theirs, because the blackout was in Spain, Portugal, Mecca, and the valleys of Andorra, and that there were people trapped on the subway and on the trains, and that it wasn't Rodal's fault, it was Rodal's fault, putting two and two together: that must be the cyberattack that the Brussels commissioner was talking about, so elegant and so fun, she who made the video with a bag from which she took out a battery-powered radio, some candles, banknotes, and some cans of sardines, perfect for three days. Ah, the sweetness of analog life!
Luckily it was daytime and the weather was nice, and Ustrell was in the mood, and it didn't seem like the apocalypse. If it had happened at night or in winter, when it was already dark by six, things would have been more dramatic. At midday, the terraces of Barcelona's bars were packed with people eating tapas and beers as if it were La Mercè, while buses full of people passed by, looking outside, and tourists laden with suitcases and staring at their phones, disoriented, in what was a collection of contradictory and anticlimactic images.
At six, Pedro Sánchez came out, and we vaguely returned to the pandemic, especially when he said there had been a "strong oscillation of the European system," which Acebes reminded us of by saying there were two lines. And then Núria Parlon came out and said that, six hours later, the causes were not clear. So, maybe the Iberian exception is that we have an electricity grid that could be greatly improved, and it's not that we don't pay generous electricity bills. Someone will explain what happened, or as that gentleman from theApm?, This is a deception from above?
