Yesterday again showed us how fragile our magnificent civilization is and how dependent we still are on the outside world. The massive power outages that began yesterday around midday throughout Spain spread to Portugal and partly to France, affecting over 50 million people in one way or another.
The consequences of this situation have not yet been finally resolved, and thousands of people across the Iberian Peninsula still have to live without electricity—and, therefore, almost without all the achievements of modern civilization. The ‘Long Night’ descended on Spain and Portugal, inevitably bringing mess and chaos with it.
