Luis works in a mobile ICU at Barajas airport

, but he doesn't really know how to get to his post.

"I

almost never take the Metro

. I live in Las Rozas and I get around by bus but yesterday I couldn't go home so I had to stay with some friends.

How do you get to the airport? I think I've gotten lost

", confesses in the middle of the hall of the

Sol station

.

His shift, he says, is a full day but today he has no set start: "The hours will start counting when he arrives."

The

snowstorm in Madrid

has caused the closure of Cercanías, AVE and EMT buses.

To make up for this lack of public transport,

Metro de Madrid has been open for 24 consecutive hours for the second time in its history

.

The first occurred in 2017, when the capital was the world headquarters of World Pride.

Yesterday the subway

was the city's salvation route

, the only living means of transportation.

The slight pulse of the capital was maintained thanks to the Metro.

Some stations were also used as a shelter for the social SAMUR to deliver food and blankets to people in need.

But it is Saturday, and not everyone who passes through the central station does so for work.

It's 5:00 p.m. and

Daniel, Javi and Adrián

return to

Vallecas

with three other friends after spending the day enjoying the snowfall in the streets of the center.

"We are already going to the neighborhood but we have been walking," they say as one of them takes out the phone and begins to show photos of a day to remember.

"Look: in the middle of the M-30, with a snowman in Atocha, making a technical stop to drink in a kebab ... The truth is that there have been more technical stops than snow

.

"

Daniel

appears with three giant blue suitcases

.

At this time he

should

already

be in Bolivia for a work trip

but the cancellation of the flights has made him spend the night in Barajas: "I've been trapped at the airport. I live in Seville and now I'm going to the hotel that has post the company. I hope to fly on Monday, "he says hopefully.

There is also

Jaime

, who has met with a friend to take pictures of the snow with his reflex camera.

Is it for work?

"No, no, I do have an Uber, but anyone takes the car out now

.

"

The influx of the central Sol station, where couples and groups of friends occupy its platforms, contrasts with the emptiness of

Atocha

.

With the trains not running, several security guards inform the few passengers who pass by that their only option is to take metro line 1.

"People never remember us, but we are always at the bottom of the canyon," says Antonio

.

He is reinforcing the staff of just a dozen guards because he has been able to walk there.

"There is a colleague who lives in Alcalá and has been working since yesterday. Since he cannot go home, at least hours ago and he charges them," he says.

Inside the wagons the stamp of any day is repeated.

Passengers look at their mobile phones, chat, or simply listen to music.

What is not so normal is to see people equipped as if they were going to Sierra Nevada.

Like

Sonia, Javier and Sergio

, who, after seeing the snowfall in the streets of Moratalaz,

have taken their skis and snowboard and got on lines 9 and 2 of the metro to travel the Gran Via from the Santo stop Sunday

.

"It is something that we propose to do a bit like madness and when we see other people on television we have encouraged ourselves," they point out.

Night falls and more and more passengers return home.

This is the case of Mary, who goes to La Elipa after an "almost normal" day at her job in the hospitality industry.

"Normally I go by bus because I have to walk a block to the subway stop, but honestly, I haven't had any problems."

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