Street lighting went out in Lisbon, leaving drivers to cautiously inch home.
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A day without power: What 12 hours of darkness looked like in Spain and Portugal
Luis Ibáñez Jiménez was driving on a highway in east Madrid when Spain lost power. “Suddenly, there were no traffic lights,” the resident of the capital told CNN. Cars piled up, and nobody had right of way. “I was stopping so that people could pass… I saw a massive bus coming, and I had to accelerate a lot to go past it,” he said. “It was a bit of a jungle.”
