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The power shut-off will impact a large swath of Seaview, a Midcentury Modern tract designed by master architect Paul Williams in 1960 that features touches such as stone fireplaces, space-age light fixtures and eye-popping bursts of color atop an ocean bluff.

This is the second power shut-off in as many days in the area, a peninsula about 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles famous for its sea breezes, gorgeous views, and expensive homes.

Portuguese Bend resident Mike Hong said Saturday that he’d only learned of the impending shut-off an hour earlier.

If you have a major leak, the kind that sees water rushing through your home, turn off the entire water line to your home using the main shut-off valve.

The shut-off plan also illustrates how utilities across the Western U.S. are considering more disruptive strategies, like power outages, to reduce risks to communities — as well as legal liability — as climate warming and drought worsen, experts say.