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.

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.