In the middle of the afternoon on August 19th South America's largest city went dark. Under a thick, black cloud at 3pm, the lights flickered on in Sao Paulo's skyscrapers; on the motorways brake lights started to glow in the city's bumper-to-bumper traffic, and many Paulistanos were worried. Social-media users posted pictures of the gloom, juxtaposing the dystopian afternoon sky with fictional apocalyptic places such as Gotham City from "Batman", Mordor from "Lord of the Rings" and "the upside down" from "Stranger Things".
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