Euro power cut

Yesterday we had a brief power cut. At home we just a had a short cut, less than 10 second and the light was on again. "The husband" was at the local movie theatre and he said the movie was off and the emergency lights on, and after a few minutes the usher went in and told them that they were ready to re-start the movie but that they couldn't turn the emergency lights off.

We laugh it off and thought nothing of it until we read saw the news today.
There was a pan-European power cut from Germany to here!! As you can see if you take the link to the BBC European news. Apparently the power failure was linked to a line across a river somewhere in Germany being switched off to allow a ship to pass through safely. France was the worst affected with people trapped in elevators and so forth.
Here in Barcelona it was very brief due to the rapid response of the local energy company who provided backs ups and God knows what.

So, this was very close to a European (continental) black out.

I think it brings home the fact that we are actually, physically, linked in this modern world of us.

Plain globalization.