
Spain has wind farms on much of the high ground.
Huge windmills, each of them that can apparently power 50.000 homes.
We have solar farms almost everywhere.
They are supposed to be able to power a city.
So what the fuck happened yesterday, 28th April?
At around 1pm power went out for the entire Iberian peninsula.
There was no Internet, not even cellular coverage and no mobile signal.
I was working in an area which rarely has power cuts, but I decided to drive into the town 20 minutes away to pick up a signal there.
At this point nobody had any idea of the size of the area without power.
Of course, everything was off in the town.
Shops were closing along with offices, bars and restaurants.
I continued to drive to the city where my warehouse is.
The electric security gate was open, thankfully, but there were no staff.
They had been sent home early with the hope that they could manage to get through the huge traffic jams caused by not having any traffic lights.
There was one guy in the warehouse, able to work as a few of the electric fork lifts still had power.
But he wasn’t there to work.
He had been told to stay behind to guard the place as there was no way of shutting the security gates and the alarm systems were not working.
I will have to pay him extra for that.
He was under instructions to sleep there if necessary.
Loaded by a forklift with the stuff I needed I headed home.
Electric cars were abandoned on the side of the main roads and motorways.
Fuel cars were abandoned too as they had run out of petrol.
Petol pumps in the service stations were not working.
Impossible to call anyone for assistance.
People were trying to hitch a lift by the side of the roads.
Fire engines were everywhere.
Going to rescue people stuck in lifts.
It was fucking mayhem.
I managed to get home and Mrs Cunter had thoughtfully made me some sandwiches while there was still daylight.
We sat on our terrace in candlelight with a warm bottle of wine.
Everything in the freezer was fucked and will need to be chucked out.
Just after midnight and about 11 hours after the power cut, the lights came back on.
Nobody knows what caused the outage for 60 million people yesterday, but I just hope that these Just Stop Oil and the EV enthusiasts take note.
Although only an 11 hour disruption, getting things back to normal will take a week.
Greta Thunberg, you are a fucking cunt.
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Nominated by The Artful Cunter.