In the streets full of Porto port, dark: “A girl, is there no light?” | blackout

Before the electricity was the gas and it was in this matter that all those who rode to the gas store, in the Commercial Rua de Fernandes Tomás, were in Porto.

The bell, which indicates the entry and exit of customers, “does not play such a 15 -year”, can answer Manuel Carvalho, alone behind the table, and he tries strongly to have the Internet to connect to the resource and submit more requests.

The line already exceeds 30 customers who enter the door “on a normal day”, often to get technical assistance from buying new gas stoves.

The hostile smell of the materials that will be tested before the sale arrives abroad, in front of the Bulhao Municipality market, which has already been closed.

For lunch, the best way to describe the streets surrounding the Trindade metro station, which opens its door only to return to tourists, is the luggage that was left in Cacifies (electric), as you hear in the grocery store at the cod exhibition: “A pilgrimage”.

Workers gather at the door of local professions and businesses, and residents who are trying to buy tuna boxes and water bottles, all of whom ask many questions and receive few answers.

In a short time, without official information, there were already base rumors of health: half of the city: light will return only within 72 hours. No contacts, without a TV, where do they hear all the same? “This is what is said,” says Joaquim Carvalho, at the grocery store where he sells dry cod.

In the adjacent door, tattoo studio, triple batteries were turned off, and mobile phones that still have the Internet to hear the news have been used.

Hours later, without the stacked radio devices at home, people were already rejected from jobs who sought to use parked cars and open doors.

Others have connected coal stoves in the city center tours to cook lunch.

Unlike the vehicles, which had to be evacuated, the metro business does not stop and the noise of machinery does not allow what is really going on.

Two university Taliban are still able to rent the electric trotinet to try to return home faster than the bus, public transport that has worked better.

Along the way, the elderly prevents us: “A girl, isn’t there a light? I don’t know anything and I cannot talk to my children. I was going to buy candles there, but please tell me what is happening.”

Shopping only with cash and local business: AJAR supermarkets, a common point of view, had a visual metaphor for uncertainty on the day when information was not everywhere, everywhere.

“What will you do with that frozen? My son is hungry, I couldn’t come before.” Thus, he tried to no avail that one of the residents begins to negotiate unprecedented with the security guard.

Strange for all this, Batorese Raymondo in a square, sitting on a general seat, plays chilo. It is waiting for the common point, and without a mobile phone, it makes music for those who pass. As if they followed the melody, the parents find there. They came to consult in Porto, which was canceled, in an electric car, which will be without a battery. “We hope that the hotels will have in Porto births.”

We hope the light will return before it is accurate.