in Madrid, cash, closed shops and car chaos – Liberation
« Estamos well jodidos. » Let us kindly translate by « we are really in the panade ». She is very sorry, Laura, employed in Starbucks on Gran via Madrid, supported at the counter with her other idle colleagues. More electricity, more cooking, more ice cubeno more payment by cards. In this artery, the most emblematic of Madrid, where of course all ticket distributors are broken, the lucky ones are those who have liquid money in their pocket.
There is a strangest atmosphere, loaded with hyper realism, of dummy normality. By clusters, tourists benefit from Madrid heat on the terraces. But many cannot reach their hotel or their airbnb, where almost everything, now, is automated. The stores are almost all closed, except this one, a wallapop (a resourcery) where « We will close as soon as the batteries of the payments of payments will be fully discharged », Smiles a seller, a bit sly.
The giant electricity failure which paralyzes the Iberian Peninsula, Monday, April 28, caused some puffs of anxieties in the capital of Spain. Deconal office employees gathered in the streets, their computers having become unusable.
On the artery of Gran via, traffic is an unimaginable chaos: in a few hours, transport has become a headache in the heart of the capital. To replace the lights that work when they want (that is to say very weakly), municipal and national police are flourishing in their whistles to pass cohorts of cars. The Bicimad, municipal electric bicycle of the capital, offers only empty stations. Metros are no longer accessible, after dozens of passengers have remained stuck in the tunnel between two quays.
The object of all desires are the buses. But they are rare. On the Spanish Square, the queues for vehicles that go to the suburbs lie over more than 300 meters. To amplify chaos, the beacons are omnipresent. Police cars, but especially the ambulances of Samur, Spanish emergencies, which will try to breathe those who have been blocked in elevators between two floors.
