For perspective: there was a power outage that took place across the Iberian peninsula (affecting mainly Portugal and parts of both Spain & France back in 2025), at least people there didn't resort to looting immediately the moment everything was in disaray (transit networks were down, internet & phone connections were offline, contactless payments were disrupted and people were made to leave public venues). At least, the federal governments of their countries managed to act fast the moment this occurred nationwide.

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[โ€“] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I remember this one well. We were without power for two and a half days. I got together with a bunch of friends and we went to each other's homes and barbequed all the food that was spoiling, smoking a fuckton of weed in between stops. Our small Ontario town turned into one big street party. The only shitty part was it happened during a heat wave so sleeping was a little rough.

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