Obviously this is about the power outage in Spain.

While normally, if a card declines, people would probably have to leave their IDs with the restaurant while they went to get a withdrawl from their bank; this is a power outage, withdrawls wouldn’t work. It would be silly to arrest people because of a power outage. So I’m assuming people just have to give the restaurant owner/management their identity info with a promise to pay?

And power outages shouldn’t affect buses, since they run on gasoline/diesel, but the payment system processing transit passes might not work. Do buses still get run during a power outage and they just let people on for free, or do they just shut down the bus lines?

  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
    4·
    23 hours ago

    In the US, telephone land lines actually carry their own DC electrical charge which is provided by the telephone central office and travels through copper wires to each phone.

    This is why, during a power outage in the US, a land line phone will typically continue to work. The exception being if the outage is large enough to also take out the central phone office.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      The central phone office frequently has its own backup generators or independent power supplies which is what I was referring to.

      • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
        3·
        23 hours ago

        Gotcha. That makes sense why the phones always seemed to work in every power outage. I wanted to mention the 48 volts DC setup because I’m not sure if that’s common or standard outside of the US.