National power blackout emergency in Spain/Portugal

[Tintin]

Something a little 'lighter' but relevant. Here's Coco Gauff (tennis player) being interviewed, and then?

This purports to include the moment power went out, presumably at the Madrid WTA tournament:

[Eric J (Viking)]

A friend of mine lives in Spain. He’s off grid so he was sort of ok.

But one thing he mentioned is that the car battery was dead.

CME anyone?

Update for Rizotto. His wife has had no problems with her car battery … 🤷‍♂️

[Rizotto]

Posted by Eric J (Viking) (here)
A friend of mine lives in Spain. He’s off grid so he was sort of ok.

But one thing he mentioned is that the car battery was dead.

CME anyone?

Could your friend find out if others' car batteries also went dead? According to space weather news, there were no recent solar flares or solar CME.

But there is always the possibility of an EMP from a nuclear detonation at high altitude. Which is apparently difficult to determine.

Now... who is at odds with Spain over a certain genocide, and also has nukes? Oh yeah!...

[seekingtruth]

I am in Spain, and my family lives in multiple regions in Spain and Portugal. The official stories so far have been laughable - the first one given was this - "extreme weather" - it is spring here. lol.

There was some panic buying but overall everyone was pretty chilled, hanging out in parks and bars etc.

However, everyone was worried if it were to go on for more than a day or two. We've all seen enough disaster movies.

The other thing was that even after power came back on, comms networks stayed down. Mobile, phone lines and internet all remained down for hours. Did not feel organic that is for sure.

Also, when has anyone ever seen a blackout across entire nations before? I have lived in third-world countries and never seen a nation-wide blackout, only ever been local at worst.

[seekingtruth]

Posted by Eric J (Viking) (here)
A friend of mine lives in Spain. He’s off grid so he was sort of ok.

But one thing he mentioned is that the car battery was dead.

CME anyone?

ours was/is ok, cars are on the roads, everything is back to normal pretty much.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by seekingtruth (here)
Also, when has anyone ever seen a blackout across entire nations before? I have lived in third-world countries and never seen a nation-wide blackout, only ever been local at worst.

Last year in Ecuador, when there was a record 6-month drought that badly affected the nation's hydro power system, there were scheduled blackouts, region by region, for 4-6 hours every day but occasionally extending to 10-12 hours. A few times the entire country was blacked out all at once, but only for very short periods.

What impressed me was how quickly everyone got used to it and just adapted. (People in developing countries are probably a lot better at this!)

When traffic lights failed at major intersections, passers-by – just regular local people with no training or police authorization! — jumped in and directed the traffic themselves. (It worked!)

Roadside market stalls, often with no electricity anyway, were quite unaffected, all using nothing but simple cash as they always do. Small but very efficient Chinese generators sold like hot cakes. I learned to manage everything very quickly and the blackouts soon became a routine daily feature, rather like sunrise and sunset.

The key is simply having a few things at home (cash, water, food, batteries, a little gasoline in containers) all on hand to soften the impact. It's cheap and super-easy to do, and Avalon has many threads about this.

But the main thing to be aware of and avoid, that's found everywhere in North America and Europe, is the belief in the fallacy that it could never happen there.

[Merkaba360]

there's lots of predictions of electric grid and/or internet black outs looming.

One has said that the Spain black out was a test to see how people will react. This could make sense with the unusual nationwide blackout. But how do you do that without the grid workers knowing. Some kind of secret control thru the computer system? Advanced secret tech? hmmm

Another is seeing a blackout coming and that they will use it to bring some new tech online. I forget whether that would be internet or electrical. If electrical, then maybe that was the test run for a bigger reset. I don't really have any ideas on what might require a reboot to install some kind of new tech. Or if they need to keep everyone blind while they make some upgrades. It wasn't clear if it would be something to give them more power and control. But seemed like it could possibly be a good thing. But then again, why not just tell people whats happening if its useful for humanity. lol

I feel like tech development is going to really accelerate soon, for a period of a few years lets say. Maybe they want the grid upgraded for various reasons like national security.

Have you guys seen that african guy making the "free energy" device claims. He has it in a car. I think thats not that far as well. This burning oil and coal bullsht is ridiculous. And I think the rise of AI must be coupled with a new energy source. Whether AI's superintelligence helps us invent it soon or if the military releases one of its energy techs since AI and computing use so much energy.......I think a solution is on the way.

[Ernie Nemeth]

Check out Suspicious Observer, Weather News.

This was a surge in the plasma surrounding Earth due to the Earth's weakening Magnetic Field.

It should not have happened, according to him, for another ten years.

Adjust your timelines, things just 'quickened'.

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by seekingtruth (here)
Also, when has anyone ever seen a blackout across entire nations before? I have lived in third-world countries and never seen a nation-wide blackout, only ever been local at worst.

Last year in Ecuador, when there was a record 6-month drought that badly affected the nation's hydro power system, there were scheduled blackouts, region by region, for 4-6 hours every day but occasionally extending to 10-12 hours. A few times the entire country was blacked out all at once, but only for very short periods.

What impressed me was how quickly everyone got used to it and just adapted. (People in developing countries are probably a lot better at this!)

When traffic lights failed at major intersections, passers-by – just regular local people with no training or police authorization! — jumped in and directed the traffic themselves. (It worked!)

Roadside market stalls, often with no electricity anyway, were quite unaffected, all using nothing but simple cash as they always do. Small but very efficient Chinese generators sold like hot cakes. I learned to manage everything very quickly and the blackouts soon became a routine daily feature, rather like sunrise and sunset.

The key is simply having a few things at home (cash, water, food, batteries, a little gasoline in containers) all on hand to soften the impact. It's cheap and super-easy to do, and Avalon has many threads about this.

But the main thing to be aware of and avoid, that's found everywhere in North America and Europe, is the belief in the fallacy that it could never happen there.

Historically one of the largest blackouts happened in August of 2003 and millions were left without power from Canada to Northeast parts of America.

https://x.com/OSTIGOV/status/1691120037749207041

https://x.com/PIUpdate/status/1823760144737689963

https://x.com/TodayThatWas/status/1691064835755421696

https://x.com/StrangerJosh11/status/1849254657245258160

[Ernie Nemeth]

Thanks.
I had just started dating my wife, we were on vacation on the shores of Lake Huron when it happened.

It was the best black out I ever experienced. Five days of barbecues and fires in front of our cabin! yippee

[grapevine]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Check out Suspicious Observer, Weather News.

This was a surge in the plasma surrounding Earth due to the Earth's weakening Magnetic Field.

It should not have happened, according to him, for another ten years.

Adjust your timelines, things just 'quickened'.

These pictures appeared in the Metro newspaper today.

"A massive solar storm is set to cause massive blackouts across the UK and the rest of the world today after a rare ‘double punch’ from the sun.

The G3 geomagnetic storm hit Earth on Tuesday, caused by energy, blasted from the Sun to Earth in solar winds.

The effects are expected to be felt today, with heightened geomagnetic activity being predicted over the next few days."

Whole article:
https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/17/massi...-sun-22923356/

To be honest, when I first read it I thought it was propaganda support for the coming sun dimming experiments.

[meat suit]

Like what?? The sun is quiet.. nothing going on...

Ah , the article is from the 17th... Indeed We had auroras on the 17th..

[Ernie Nemeth]

As I understand it, and I listened to Ben on Rumble last night, this event had to do with Earth's wandering North Pole. Its meandering path toward Russia is wreaking havoc on the Magnetic Field that protects the surface from dangerous inrushes of the plasma (electrons and ions - ions are atoms stripped of outer electrons, thus the electrons...) that circles the planet. He has predicted such events as a precursor to the Micro-nova to follow. But in his estimation these events were not supposed to happen for another decade. The problem is that the North Pole is shifting position much faster than anticipated.

The question now is whether this event was a one off, or if it is the first of many, getting more violent as the Magnetic Field decreases in strength.


...He mentions Gibraltar a few times, and hints that it has been a grounding rod for this type of energy in the past...

[sunwings]

Satellite view of Europe last night



Here in Barcelona, everyone took advantage of the beautiful weather and truly enjoyed the city.

There were no work emails, no conference calls — not even the ability to make a phone call.

It was a surreal experience, but one that everyone will remember fondly.

To my knowledge, there was no looting, which is rare in such situations, especially in the Western world.

[Isserley]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

What impressed me was how quickly everyone got used to it and just adapted. (People in developing countries are probably a lot better at this!)

Except common people are pretty much the same in all countries and when they get heads-up for such a big event, it makes all the difference.
: rolleyes: at this sentiment of constant division between "western" and "developing" and how the latter is superior.
My whole life I lived in developing ****hole of a country where corruption is the norm and you get used to it same as you get used to periodical electricity reductions (common in the 90s).It is nothing to be impressed about.

Edit : I apologize for harsh reply. Its just one of those bitter days I perodicaly have

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Isserley (here)
Edit : I apologize for harsh reply. Its just one of those bitter days I perodicaly have

[Bruce G Charlton]

I lived through many power cuts over several years during the 1970s in Britain - due to strikes and other forms of Industrial Action.

But the thing is - things are different now. Nowadays, fifty years on; in developed nations almost everything needs electricity - whereas in the 1970s you could run a car, heat your home, even run many high street businesses, without mains electricity.

This high and increasing dependence on mains electricity has been substantially top-down imposed and subsidized and exempted from regulations (and alternatives made illegal and taxed) in the UK - so that demand and need just goes up and up; even while electricity generation is being incrementally destroyed by fake-pseudo-"alternatives".

Putting this together, I regard the overall strategy as one of several and simultaneous ways being pursued to destroy civilization - assuming it doesn't destroy itself first.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
I lived through many power cuts over several years during the 1970s in Britain - due to strikes and other forms of Industrial Action.

But the thing is - things are different now. Nowadays, fifty years on; in developed nations almost everything needs electricity - whereas in the 1970s you could run a car, heat your home, even run many high street businesses, without mains electricity.

This high and increasing dependence on mains electricity has been substantially top-down imposed and subsidized and exempted from regulations (and alternatives made illegal and taxed) in the UK - so that demand and need just goes up and up; even while electricity generation is being incrementally destroyed by fake-pseudo-"alternatives".

Putting this together, I regard the overall strategy as one of several and simultaneous ways being pursued to destroy civilization - assuming it doesn't destroy itself first.

Yes, very well put. That's what I was getting at in my post above when I said (rather simply and clumsily!) "People in developing countries are probably a lot better at this."

As an example, many farmers and relatively simple rural people in Ecuador don't have fridges or washing machines. It's common to see whole families (3 generations!) washing their clothes in the local rivers as a kind of family weekly ritual. The kids play, everyone has fun, and they often enjoy a simple picnic together.

And unless one gets milk fresh from the cows, ALL milk sold is the stores is UHT (longlife), simply because so many people don't have fridges. And of course many people don't have cars, and are accustomed to walking, cycling, or traveling only on buses.

And EVERYONE living in a rural area has a small garden of some kind where they grow their own vegetables, and many keep cows, goats and chickens, even if just one or two.

The more 'civilized' we all become, the more vulnerable we are to potential catastrophes. It's often been pointed out that if there was a really major cataclysm that affected much of the planet, it would be the indigenous people who would be most likely to make it through unscathed.

[Bruce G Charlton]

@Bill - "It's often been pointed out that if there was a really major cataclysm that affected much of the planet, it would be the indigenous people who would be most likely to make it through unscathed."

As this is so well known; I would guess that The Plan is for the Establishment of the West/ Totalitarian Globalists to bring their military, move-in, and take-over such places; when they've destroyed everywhere else...

[Rawhide68]

This interview with Bret Weinstein and Ben Davidsson (SunWeatherMan) from almost a year ago comes to mind.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w0Gz7w3l_uE

Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions
(05:40) Current sun coronal mass ejections
(14:10) Carrington event
(18:00) Transformers
(25:10) Nuclear power plants
(29:30) Earth's magnetic field and pole shift
(42:00) Why do planets' poles shift?
(01:00:00) Super flare or Micro Nova
(01:12:30) Species extinction
(01:18:50) Carbon dating, isotope dating and errors
(01:23:25) Shifting crust and changes in latitude
(01:35:00) Crustal shift evidence summary and mega tsunamis
(01:37:00) New pole positions
(01:39:40) Current solar activity
(01:42:30) Prepping for solar storm
(01:53:40) Underground caves
(01:56:00) Hopeful notes
(02:00:00) Wrap up