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The storm continues to cause visible damage and losses for residents. Several parishes in Leiria remain without electricity.
After almost a whole week without power or network in Vieira de Leiria, in Marinha Grande, the parish council has “finally managed to communicate with the outside” and centralise the distribution of food and hygiene supplies. The parish council president, Álvaro Cardoso, says that, at the moment, “the main need is labour”.
News item at 16:00 about a village in the Batalha municipality that has been left without electricity.
Luís Miguel Albuquerque, president of the Ourém Town Council, is worried because many people still have homes with damaged roofs. Large parts of the council area remain without electricity.
Civil Protection has warned residents of Pedrógão Grande about the danger of electrocution following damage to the local electricity network; people are advised to avoid downed power lines and damaged electrical equipment until repairs are completed.
Around 116,000 E-Redes customers remained without electricity supply in continental Portugal at 12:00 today, following damage caused by the low-pressure system Kristin to the power grid, the company said.
The Leiria district is the most affected, with 83,000 customers without electricity, followed by Santarém with 19,000 customers.
The president of Alvaiázere's Municipal Chamber, João Paulo Guerreiro, assesses the situation in his municipality, which he described as severely “devastated” by the passage of storm Kristin. According to the mayor, “it will be difficult to restore the entirety of the electricity supply”, at a time when, more than a week after the storm, only 60% of customers already have electricity — a situation that also looks pessimistic regarding communications, as was evident during the interview with CNN.
The town centre of Alcácer do Sal was flooded again. Due to heavy rain, the River Sado's water level rose once more. This morning, power was cut as a precaution and there are concerns for isolated communities.
Prime minister Luís Montenegro ‘returned to the field’ today to visit a company in Pombal – and was tackled over the continuing lack of electricity in parts of the municipality. The post PM tackled over continuing electricity failures appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The local authority explains that the scale of the damage makes immediate restoration across the whole municipality impossible, but assures that every effort is being made to fully restore power.
The Socialist candidate urged the Government to provide a 'swift response' to the needs of communities affected by the bad weather.
The mayor of Oleiros said today that more than 70% of the territory is without mobile communications or experiencing instability, at a time when the number of people without electricity is “decreasing significantly”.
Communications were only restored in the city centre.
The mayor of Proença-a-Nova today acknowledged losses of €20 million and told the Lusa news agency that the priority is to restore power, while the municipality distributes food to people and animals.
The mayor of Ourém is outraged after learning that the restoration of power across the municipality could take two weeks.
PRESS REVIEW || Lack of electricity and communications continues to hamper the resumption of activity and the normalisation of administrative procedures
Storm Kristin again exposed vulnerabilities in Portugal's electricity and telecommunications infrastructure. A week after the storm that hit much of the country, thousands of people remain without power, Internet or telephone. Experts say that, despite the 'inevitability' of the phenomenon's effects, it would have been possible to 'mitigate the effects upstream'.
IPMA explains that the low-pressure system Leonardo is a normal winter phenomenon and that a scenario similar to the low Kristin is not expected. Also, in Marinha Grande there are still areas without water and electricity.
Firefighters have set up an improvised command post with a social support office. Only 30% of the municipality has electricity, but 100% has drinking water supplied by generators.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa says the immediate priority in the affected areas is to restore electricity and communications after widespread outages that have left almost 200,000 customers without power and some communities—such as Colmeias and Memória in Leiria—isolated. Speaking after a journey to Ferreira do Zêzere during which he was “almost always without communications”, he warned of long‑standing structural weaknesses, urged caution and calm, and called for a collective, coordinated State response with preventive measures to manage the emergency.
Depression Kristin has left roads impassable and thousands of homes without electricity and water. The Government has declared a state of calamity for 60 municipalities as Civil Protection warns of continued flood risk in the coming days. This minute-by-minute report tracks the evolving weather conditions in Portugal and the emergency response, including infrastructure impacts, mobilised resources and short-term forecasts guiding recovery decisions.
Storm Kristin swept across Portugal, entering near Leiria and causing widespread destruction particularly in the Centre and West. By 22:00 on Wednesday the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection had logged around 5,400 incidents; high winds uprooted trees, ripped roofs from buildings and disrupted services. Local authorities and Civil Protection have been responding minute-by-minute to damage and casualties, although casualty figures were reported inconsistently during the day. The situation remains dynamic as emergency teams continue operations and meteorological services monitor the depression’s evolution over the coming hours.
Storm Ingrid left about 3,800 E‑Redes customers without power across mainland Portugal at 18:30, with the Aveiro district the most affected. The earlier peak of disruption reached roughly 20,000 customers in the North and Centre during the early hours. E‑Redes teams, working with protection and security authorities, are on the ground managing network constraints and carrying out repairs to restore supply.