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Porto endures six days without television with the town covered in snow

Porto covered by snow. | ACE

“There are people who do not go out with this snow on the street all day. They get up in the morning and, if they don’t have to go shopping or go to work or take care of the animals, they spend 24 hours a day at home. Television keeps them company, it is the entertainment that makes their day more enjoyable ”. The words are from the mayor of Porto, Francisco Blanco Corrales, and the reality is the six days that the people of Porto have been without television.

An incident that the mayor trusts will be solved during this first day of the week. The lack of national channels has been made up for with the Galician regional television broadcasts, when it comes to following the chimes of the new year. For at least two decades the portexos households have been tuned to the broadcasts of the neighboring community. No linguistic problems involved.

“In these mountain areas, people are lonelier and at this time, in a year when families have hardly come to town, it was essential company for them.” The reality that the mayor exposes contrasts with the comments on social networks of “why television?”, Comments generally made from cities with leisure and assorted accompaniment, even in times of pandemic. Rural reality is different and television is part of entertainment and is also a way “of being in touch with the reality of the world.”

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Access to Porto with the passage of a machine to clear the road. | ACE


Francisco Blanco understands that “we all understand that technical failures occur, but foresight has been lacking and not waiting until the last minute.” Since December 30, when the incident was reported to the Cellnex Telecom company, in charge of transmitting television and radio signals throughout Spain, it was formerly Retevisión who was in charge of maintenance.

A piece is the origin of the problem and reaching that conclusion had its pluses and minuses. “When they saw that the road was covered in snow, they no longer considered going up to the repeater. Although I told him that the cattle ranchers did go up ”, says the mayor.. So they did go up and examine the piece. The holidays of the end of the year and the weekend have delayed the arrival of the piece, which is expected for today with a bit of luck and if the weather conditions do not complicate the displacement.

The state of the road precisely caused yesterday that several drivers who traveled to Porto to spend the end of the year had to delay their return to their places of residence, due to ice and snow. Although the passage of the snow plows of the Ministry of Development and Environment is daily and generally before 10 in the morning, yesterday Sunday it was the mayor’s turn to notify Civil Protection to send the machinery to the risk of an ice accident, mainly . Some drivers decided not to wait and face the journey to the A-52 motorway with caution.

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