Huge blackout in Europe over the weekend, it originated in Germany.

A German utility confirmed it caused a weekend outage that left millions of people in several countries without power, but denied Monday that the blackout revealed a lack of investment in Europe’s power grids.

I now step into my time machine and travel back to that period following a massive blackout in the northeastern U.S. and what Der Spiegel had to say about that. (here’s the non-translated version)

“BLACKOUT IN AMERICA – The dazed world power was plunged into chaos by the largest blackout in the super power’s history: Cities in the dark, planes on the ground, and a nation marching single-file like geese through the darkness. The land of limitless opportunity was shut off by a couple of exploded fuses. A world power between perception and reality – SPIEGEL TV with observations from a country whose lights have gone out.”

I believe the word is schadenfreude.