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On the way to the taxi we got the news, the outage was city wide. That was giving me bit of a worry for our lunch as I don't expect restaurants to keep working without electricity. This turned out to be right and wrong at the same time.

Traffic in Barcelona is a mess at best times and these weren't. But a total collapse was avoided as most traffic lights kept working, a thing a reliability enthusiast like me noted positively. But I also saw a fraying of the mobile network that frankly shocked me. I would have expected problems, but not that soon. During our 15min drive to the restaurant I had everything from excellent connectivity to no reception at all.

By the time we arrived at the restaurant, it was clear that something big was happening. We had reports of outages from Portugal, all over Spain and from Southern France at well.

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