The light was even at night: the general comfort in the port after a blackout a report
They spend four minutes from 9 pm, Lusco-Fusco, when the light is in the center of Porto. Celebrity centuries, smiles, palm trees and traffic light, finally this afternoon when drivers and pedestrians were forced to make their traffic and negotiate traffic codes. The day of blackout ends. Now this is just a beautiful hot spring night.
Those who were on the Louis Bridge I saw the port lit up at a time when Gaya has already begun to return to normal. “For a few minutes, I could see the stars in the sky,” Camilla commented, sitting with two friends, Luisa and Michaelson, in the hill garden, one of the favorite places to see the sunset and Ribera facades. For them, today, after all, it was a kind of blessing. “It was Eliminate toxins What we did not count on. At this time, we will work. “
After a few hours of public blackout, and seeing people who pass through the streets with Carboys water, the three restoration workers decided to fill “all rear containers” at home who were divided only one month ago. Hours later, they quietly sit on a blanket drinking wine and talking to friends to the mobile phone.
The full glasses on the stands were one of the amazing images of the day, such as long lines in supermarkets and bus stations. Another: Until now: residents and tourists on balconies, without communications, without television, are trying to decipher the movement and talks in the streets of what is going on.
Unable to cook and many restaurants – Those who did not close the doors – They became bars. Payments, only cash (sometimes the MB method can be used). “I have ten euros for beer, and how many I can buy?” He asked, late in the afternoon, a young agent from the bar on the virtues. There, while he was a desperate boy that he could not smoke hot tobacco, another revived a batteries radio, and heard the paste to the spine, to obtain interpretations from the authorities. A RangThis director or national electrical system, AlreadyBy this time, appeal.
However, the remaining minutes of light were taken, and the other can be predicted. There was some collective curiosity to find out what the city would completely in the dark. There was also fear.
“It is better to get out of the house, alone, and think about nonsense,” he says, in virtues, Luan, 29 years old. It works in Alfena, at the auto edge repair factory. It was when it was when the production line was completely stopped. “Everyone deserted.” He received the separation license, fell on the supermarket to buy bread, cheese, pork and “wine”. It was lunch time. “Lar big waiting menu, madness. All neglected employees.”
But there was a lot of anxiety to create a several Basic emergency as a desire to enjoy today. Francisco Montero, an artist on the street, went to buy candles in the morning, and late in the afternoon, took his equipment – The column, microphone and computer – To the hill park, one of the places where you work CarrocSinging tablets and pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. The material batteries have been loaded, as always, from the last night.
In addition to stopping the position (which is used by tourists as a pillar of photographs), hey, on Monday night, another working day, with a small audience dancing in front of you. It is likely to return on Tuesday there – It is not without passing first in the market to try to restore candles.
In returning to Porto already illuminated, a group of about 80 teenagers is preparing to end the “madness day”. The words of those who accompanied them on the first day of the ninth grade trip, Sonia Agrie. History teacher, at a school in Santarim, has spent today to respond to phone calls from anxious parents (when she can receive calls) and adolescent management without the Internet. The day of the request did not steal his energy.
The plan was to take a crowded boat trip across the Duru bridges. It was Avanti. “Everything has succeeded,” he says, even if the bus reaches 12 hours, just minutes after a general blackout on the Iberian Peninsula.
It was not a day without formulation. “The dinner would be roasted chicken, but it should be mixed sandwiches. And a package of chips for every 10 students,” laughing at the teacher. “When the light appeared, that was a party. It looked like a goal.” We ask if they have pictures of a moment. The answers are negative, even due to the weak battery of mobile phones. “But in Tijook, he should be there,” he says, without hesitation, one of the students.
