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I heard there were massive blackouts in Spain Portugal and parts of France. If you can still somehow access the Internet, how are you doing?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It looks like they're mostly back now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t

Overnight into Tuesday, about 90% of power has been restored to Spain's national grid and lights have come back on in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

No power cuts here. The building has solar panels and when they don't get enough sun we have the hydroelectric dam in the Rhine to fall back on.

[–] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 5 points 1 month ago

I had 5 Colleague's from Portugal who lost connection when it happened, must have been a calm day for them work wise

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not in Spain or Portugal, but Pittsburgh in the US was hit by massive storms yesterday. 40% of the city and outskirts lost power. We're at about 20% down now, including myself. Power will likely be out for 3-5 more days.

I just wanna play Oblivion and it's killing me.