Alanna Gladstone, a 40-year-old film editor, had landed in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, on a flight from New York hours before the outage. She checked into her Airbnb and took a nap; by the time she woke up, the technology that the country takes for granted had gone dark.

Power was almost fully restored to Spain and Portugal on Tuesday although many questions remained about what caused one of Europe’s most severe blackouts

The Madrid Open will resume play this morning after the tennis tournament was hit by the vast power outage across Spain and Portugal on Monday.