Much of Spain and Portugal and some parts of France were hit on Monday by a massive power outage and millions of citizens remained without electricity. The incident caused an extensive discussion of social media, with the video captured the exact moment when the strength relaxed.
The video, which is now viral on social media, is filmed at the Madrid Tennis tournament. The reporter can see that she has an interview of American tennis player Coco Gauff, where the athlete describes her experience before the match.
Gauff spoke about her microphone match when the sound suddenly cut off completely, thanks to the power failure. As soon as they realize the situation, the tennis player is seen.
Other incident videos show that people pass by metro with mobile torches, as Spain and Portuguese failure continued.
Another terrible video shows the escalator in an incorrect way that causes several people to fall one by one.
The massive power outage will hit Spain, Portugal, France
Spain and Portugal were hit on Monday by a large outage of power that caused disturbance across both countries. The power failure of the paralyzed public transport, caused large traffic jams and delayed air flights and the service operators tried to restore the grid.
The game on the Madrid open tennis tournament was suspended and forced 15. The seed of Grigor Dimitrov and British rival Jacob Fearnley near the pitch when the score darkened and the director cameras lost power.
The Spanish and Portuguese governments convened emergency meetings after the outage, which also briefly influenced part of France, which borders with northeastern Spain.
The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the Red Eléctrica electricity transmission control center.
The Spanish energy distributor Red Eleéctrica said that restoring strength into large parts of the country after a massive and unprecedented outage on Monday, which also hit Portugal, may take 6-10 hours.
The outage eliminated metro networks, telephone lines, traffic lights and ATMs.
The authorities stated that the cause was not immediately known, although one Portuguese official said that the problem seems to seem to be with the distribution network of electricity in Spain.
The graph on the website of the Spanish electric network showing demand across the country indicated a sharp decline around 12:15 from 27,500 MW to almost 15,000 MW.
Portuguese E-Eedes said that parts of France were also influenced.
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