You can't make it up.
And there were signs:
For the nerds:
Across all of Portugal and Spain, people were left without power or cell service of any kind. The nations literally went dark.
Tens of millions of people had to resort to old handheld radios to figure out what was even happening. It could have been an alien invasion for all they knew!
From El Pais:
The outage suddenly set Spain back to the 19th century. Traffic lights out of service, traffic jams forming across the country, pedestrians wandering around cities without public transportation, desperate families trying to communicate with their loved ones, passengers left stranded without trains or flights, canceled medical appointments, rescues underway in subway stations and elevators, lines forming outside small shops due to supermarket closures...
I wonder what could have caused this?
For no reason at all, here's a video of Spaniards celebrating the destruction of a nuclear power plant three years ago.
Good job, guys!
Here was the scene on the ground:
Anyway, good luck with your new windmills, Spain. Don Quixote would be proud.
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