Yet on Lemmy, I feel like no one talk about this huge international event.
Maybe because the people that are affected don't have power.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
109 points (98.2% liked)
News
36118 readers
2946 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Maybe because the people that are affected don’t have power.
Can confirm - we just got our power back (I’m in Lisbon). We had internet access for the first hour or so, but after that we were offline for several hours. Most of my family (outside of Lisbon) are still unreachable.
That's right. We spent most day in Spain without power, internet or cellphones. The only working news source was the good old FM radio.
My emergency kit has a radio with AM / FM / NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA) and a hand crank to charge its battery for exactly this reason.
NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA)
For now...
:(
At least I live in an area where the most likely disaster is an earthquake that destroys the entire area, and I'm not sure how useful weather alerts would be in that case.
I always consider buying a hand cranked FM radio for Hurricane season, but always talk myself out of it. I think you just inspired me to finally just do it.
Have you heard anything about what might have caused the drop in power?
Lets not abdicate our responsibility to wildly speculate about the situation in their absence
I would like to speculate that the entire Iberian peninsula has fallen into the Atlantic. Andorra is coastline now.
What do you mean? I've seen this piece of news at least 20 times already.
I watched the first two pages of All on both Hot and Active and I could find mention of it. I thought it would be today's main focus on Lemmy but somehow not even a little bit.
First I've heard of it, and I've checked lemmy at least four times today
It was a failure of the interconnection between France and Spain after a sudden drop in power, but no reports of what caused the drop yet.
Have you heard any theories about what it could have been that caused the drop?.