[anthk]

In my case I was near and Bilbao the blackout ended around ~12PM while other towns around -up to 12km far- didn't got the power back until 22PM.

Everyone was outside with pocket radio receivers listening to instructions and having a good time around bars as if it were a European soccer final cup with the local team being playing...

On telecomms, I barely got 2G speeds and no Spanish newspaper (nor media) dared to set a https://lite.cnn.com or https://text.npr.org like page to read the news. I had to literaly use a Gemini (the protocol) client, Lagrange, tunneling the webs thru gemini://gemi.dev with their 'News Waffle' service. And for international news I just resorted to Gopher and magical.fish. The mainstream web barely loaded some of the text (if any), while several IM options ran at crawling network speeds. The lines were clogged and I coudn't even call my relatives.