It happens in Europe, it's just that you don't hear about it unless it has an impact. For example this summer in Paris, a train station (gare montparnasse) was

It happens in Europe, it's just that you don't hear about it unless it has an impact. For example this summer in Paris, a train station (gare montparnasse) was without electricity for 3 or 4 days because a transformer was on fire.