Spain and Portugal are racing the setting sun as they respond to a massive, unexplained power outage that knocked out traffic lights, caused chaos on roads and in airports, and threatened to plunge tens of millions of people into darkness on Monday.

However, while normality is returning after the polar chaos and the agony caused by “El Cero” (i.e. “Zero”, as the sudden and massive blackout was dubbed), not only the Iberian countries but Europe and certainly a very large part of the world community remain numb.