Orange Warnings... duh, not for EDP!

This week Portugal is being hit by the worst weather storms in decades… some will say.

Somehow is true… even I don’t recall such strong winds and continuously rain in… hum… in the last 5 years.

The true is, because I ride motorcycles for the last 15 years, I already felt in my “skin” some real bad weather, when most of the people is just sitting inside their comfortable cars with heating and music.

So, I was not surprised when in the last days Portugal started once more having the usual problems with weather… “the usual” because this happens since I learned how to walk (ages ago).

Portugal has one entity that is suppose to warn everyone when some catastrophe can happen… it is called “Proteção Civil” (Civil Protection department)… and they did their work announcing an Yellow status for all country and after raising to Orange.
So, who was really interested in that announcements tried to take measures, defensive, protection measures… but… one week later seems, NO ONE was listening… and now everyone is trying to find someone to blame… J

This is Portugal…

In the news we see some people without electricity for more than 1 week… and EDP (the electricity company) defends their inactivity with weather causes J Its funny when an Orange warning was raised and this monopoly company did nothing to create emergency measures or even to react to possible problems.

One thing they are good… very good… in Billing… you know… the monthly white and black nice invoice? They are very, very good… the best we have in our small, 3^rd world country – Billing.

They can bill everyone in a very modern and technological ways, with the prices they want, even if are the most expensive in Europe… even if they don’t provide the full service 24x7 as is supposed to be.

Now you know… in Portugal Orange warnings are just for fun, and EDP is just for Billing.

(for your info, this is the national electricity provider - the only one... and the smiley is just someone in the EDP board smilling about the huge incomings and about how good they are "billing".. )