RE: Blackout in Spain, Portugal and parts of France. Decoding "Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon": This either means they "don't know" or "don't want to tell" you the real cause.
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I remember times in Canada when ice storms downed powerlines, causing power outages that lasted several days, and some remote villages were without power over a week. Example Ice Storm in Ontario
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That's crazy and scary! But it's a bit different when 2 whole countries were suddenly out of power! The panic and fear are on a different level because it's difficult to contact other people, and there's the possibility of it being an attack.
There have to be backup systems that kick in. In case of a hack, which is also a possibility, the back-up systems have to be independent of the internet and manually set in motion. A emergency plan has to have that built in, a protocol of procedures. I worked on the railway in Canada in 2000 and we had such a plan in case of Y2K. As it were, hardly any of the fears materialized, most of our operations continued smoothly. But we were prepared for the worse, to keep our trains running.
In Portugal we have the tendency to be unprepared 😅