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Buildings were plunged into darkness, while mobile phones and traffic lights stopped working.

The judges used a traffic light system to rate all 153 books they read over eight months - green, amber and red, depending on what they thought of them.

More than once, Piña has been caught sitting on his couch in his underwear, writing scripts on his laptop, as Hollywood tour buses stop at the traffic light outside.

"I feel like someone standing at a traffic light, and then it turns green."

The once spectacular coastline had seemingly morphed overnight — an apocalyptic transformation, decades in the making, seen with stark clarity now that orange caution tape and makeshift traffic lights mark what’s left of the shore.