00:00Exactly one year ago, this was the scene.
00:03Portugal and Spain were hit by a blackout that left millions of people without electricity
00:08for over 12 hours.
00:10The blackout is believed to have originated in southern Spain, with technical failures
00:15causing power surges in the Portuguese grid.
00:18Since that day, recommendations have increased for people to have an emergency kit for at
00:23least 72 hours.
00:24But would they be prepared if there were another blackout?
00:27I am a secretary, so I already had a kit ready, I had a radio.
00:32I have everything except the phone, the radio, the rest, lanterns, conservas, money at home,
00:43this I always have.
00:45I bought a radio with pilhas, I always have pilhas suplentes at home, water, and for the
00:53apagant I also prepared for a possible tremor of land.
00:56I have a backpack with a lot of things, a coverboard, a cap.
01:02If I was to buy hygienic paper, glasses of water below 7 dispensers, it seemed like the
01:07world was going to end.
01:08In Spain, the blackout from a year ago already seemed like a very distant event.
01:13The truth is that I have no longer thought of it, it has affected me.
01:17Do you have an emergency kit or more food or effective at home if it happens again?
01:24In reality, at the beginning we did it, but as we all ended up relaxing.
01:30Drinking water, non-perishable food, a first aid kit, a flashlight, a battery powered radio,
01:36and a portable charger for the cell phone, these are some of the essentials.
01:40No one wants to relieve the back-out, still, some admit that the episode brought new concerns
01:46and also some changes in habits.
01:48At the moment we are more prepared.
01:50Nothing like watching, like a lantern and reading a book, or hearing music on the radio, as
01:55as well.
01:56So, we have to go back to the old.
01:58We have to know how to live without the technologies, without being constantly connected to the
02:04internet.
02:05A year later, the parliamentary working group created in the wake of the blackout presents
02:09its final report with proposals to strengthen the response to future power outages and make
02:15the country better prepared for crisis.
02:17As expected, we are now taking the purpose of an open source of product and carry out
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