If you hadn’t paid attention to Europe yesterday (and God only knows why you would), you may have missed a little bit of karma that came calling on the Iberian Peninsula for most of the day and night on Monday.
As reported by many news outlets yesterday, first Spain and Portugal experienced a massive power outage that plunged both countries into a state of emergency:
A power blackout hit most of the Iberian Peninsula on Monday around 12.30pm local time, forcing the two countries to declare a state of emergency.
The mass blackout upended the lives of tens of millions of people for hours as traffic and transport came to a standstill and left leaving many without water, Wi-Fi or mobile network.
Portuguese grid operator REN said there was a ‘very large oscillation in the electrical voltages, first in the Spanish system, which then spread to the Portuguese system.’
Fortunately, by this morning, most or at least some power had been restored to about 99 percent of both countries.
Normally, such an emergency would inspire our sympathy, but in this case, it also inspired our sense of poetic justice. Media outlets like The Independent, above,…
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