As the electricity shutdown in Spain and Portugal.

Peter Hugz noticed the first sign of trouble when his train to Madrid begins to slow down.

Then the TV and the light disappeared. The emergency lanterns turned on, but did not last, and the locomotive stopped.

Four hours later, Mr Hughes still stuck on a train of 200 kilometers (124 miles) behind the capital of Spain. He had food and water, but the toilets did not work.

“It will get dark soon and we could stay here for hours,” he said the BBC.

The mass incision of the force, which threw Mr. Hughes, caused chaos in Spain and Portugal, and influenced Andorra and parts of France, approximately noon local time (10:00 GMT).

Road light is shut off. The meters closed. The enterprises closed and people came up to get cash because the card payments did not work.

Jonathan Emery was on another train halfway between Seville and Madrid when the cuts hit.

For an hour he sat on the train, the door closed until the people could open them to miss the ventilation. Half an hour later, the passengers left, only being stranded.

It was then that people from the local villages began to come and reject accessories – water, bread, fruits.

“Nobody pays for anything, and the word should be in the local city because people just continue to go,” he said.

In Madrid, Hanna Loweni went halfway through the shopping shopping in Aldi when the power came out.

People left their offices and went home because they couldn’t say when the buses were coming, Ms Lowney said in a voice message sent to BBC Radio 5 Live.

“It’s a little unpleasant that it’s the whole country, I have never felt it before,” she said.

Mark England ate lunch at the hotel restaurant, where it stopped on vacation in Benidor when “everything went out, and the fire alarm started to leave, and the fire door began to close.”

The International School in Lisbon electricity flickered and turned off for a while, then refused, said Emily Traugud, teacher.

She continued to teach in the dark, the children in a good mood, but many parents were taken out of school, she said.

Will David, a British living in Lisbon, had a haircut and a beard decoration in the hairdressing basement when the power decreased. The hairdresser found his place by the window upstairs to finish the incision with scissors.

“Walking home felt very strange, as with a lack of traffic lights, which meant a complete free of charge for vehicles and pedestrians on roads, and so many people who are brewing outside their places,” he said.

Initially, mobile phone networks also decreased for some, leaving numerous receipts for information.

Curtis Gladden, who is in La Vall d’Aixo, approximately 30 miles from Valencia, stated that it was “scary” when he fought to get updates about what was happening.

Eloisa Edington, which could do no work as a copyright in Barcelona, ​​said she was only getting random messages, couldn’t load a web page on her phone and tried to keep the battery.

An hour and a half after the authorities came out, one resident of Fortune, in the southeast of Spain, said her husband was traveling, trying to find a gas station that could put fuel to launch the generator and maintain work in the refrigerator.

“We are going through food, water, cash and gasoline, if it continues for a few days,” said Britley, who has been living in Spain for 11 years.

The locals “have to worry more” than a suspended Madrid’s tennis tournament, “she said, adding that” very little news about what happened. ”

Mr. England said he was walking down the street in Benidor, “most of the shops are in the dark and closed, or people on the porches say you can’t come. There are no cash machines or traffic lights, so it’s weird.”

After Mr. In -depth’s phone’s signal returned approximately two hours, he and others dared to the cafe, but found that “nothing works – we came to get food and drink, but they cannot cook without electricity.”

For two hours, the operator of the Spanish power grid Red Electrica said he was starting to restore electricity in the north and south.

But two and a half hours after the reduction, Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeido still urged all residents to “maintain their movements to an absolute minimum and, if at all possible to stay where they are” in a video recorded from the integrated city rapid safety center.

At 3:00 pm, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gathered an “extraordinary” meeting of the Spanish National Security Council.

Soon at the press conference, the CEO of Red Electrica Eduardo Prieo said that it would be necessary to resume “six to ten hours”.

A little before 16:00 the electricity entered Malaga again. By 5:00 pm, the network operator stated that the authorities were recovering “in several areas of the north, southern and western from (Iberian) peninsula.”

Portugal’s power firm Ren gave a more terrible forecast, saying it could “take up to a week” before the network came to normal.

The decrease in the effects continues: the backup generators at the airports began to stand, which allowed most flights to leave on time, but some could not work.

Tom McGilaoui, on vacation in Lisbon, was supposed to return to London on Monday night, but did not know what it would happen on early evening.

He said the time when people received drinks and food, but the sellers told him that they would continue to work until the batteries were over on their payment terminals.

“If I need to book a hotel when the plane is canceled, I don’t know how I can do it when payments are reduced,” he added.

“My partner’s parents are trying to get gasoline so they can pick us up to return us to Alentejo, but many gasoline stations are closed or not accepting. We may not be stuck without planning where to stay tonight.”

Additional Reporting and Studies Andri Masi, Chris Bramswell, James Kelly, Bernad McCa, Josh Perry and Leg Mancheti