Power Outage in Spain and Portugal Creates a Day of Confusion
Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 hours of the “insanity.”
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Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 hours of the “insanity.”
Electricity was back in most of the two countries after a blackout that shut down much of daily life. The cause of the outage remained unclear.
Millions on the Iberian Peninsula were left without power for hours on Monday afternoon into the evening.
The blackout hit critical infrastructure like airports and caused transportation disruptions across the two countries. The cause of the outage was unclear.
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