Nothing is functioning, and there is no power. How will I manage to survive the day?
During the greatest power outage in Spain’s and Portugal’s history, millions of people had to answer that question on Monday.
We ask those who went without power for a day what they needed to get by and what they missed during the outage.
In Madrid, people line up at a cash register.
Although using a phone and a card to pay has become commonplace, when stores began to stop accepting card payments, lines grew at the cash machines—at least the ones that were still operational—in towns around Spain and Portugal.
