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The sky was as blue as the famous waters of Lake Tahoe when Gloria Brantino and her friends decided to anchor and obtain a cocktail of rum. He was starting to feel cold and the winds picked up.
On the shore, a group was playing and people were swimming – the children who were running in their swimsuits while the first official weekend of the summer started in this vacation place in popular California.
It seemed that in a few minutes on Saturday, everything had changed. A storm moved, sending steering wheel tents and awnings. White styled water and 8 -foot swells (2.5 m) caused a capacity of several boats, including a 27 -foot ship filled with tourists.
On Monday, officials confirmed two other people aboard this boat who were found dead – bringing the number of deaths to eight.
Ms. Brantino, who visited the popular Alpine lake between California and Nevada with friends from Texas and California, watched the boats crash into each other, snatching their anchors and breaking on the shore. The howling winds that reached 35 MPH (56 km / h) even brought a brief snow.
She looked safely on earth the boat she and her friends had been aboard the capsize, flowing some of the personal effects of her group.
“Some owners of the boats were crying while their boats were destroyed,” she told the BBC, adding that people were risking their lives to help the charters to unload the passengers while people were frantically trying to descend water in the midst of worsening conditions.
At that time, the group had excited and fled. Their scene was now underwater, she said.
“I could feel the gas leak, some gentlemen helped to remove the passengers from a pontoon boat that stuck on the shore,” said Ms. Brantino. “The waves struck him so quickly that they fled, fell, many were crying.”
In the 35 minutes after arriving on the ground, she says that she counted nine boats stacked in front of them.
Ms. Brantino is a self-proclaimed cowgirl and was absent with her friends who all work in Western industry with horses. They were there to have fun and help a friend to make content on social networks on the theme of the West. Photos and videos of their trip showed the dancing group with drinks and posing in festive hats on the boat before the storm.
Ms. Brantino said she had grown up in Lake Tahoe and knows that time can change quickly.
“It happened suddenly. The water was just shouting towards shore,” she said. “It was bad.”
The bad weather was planned, says Ms. Brinantino, but no one expected a fatty of this force. She and others deplored that they had not seen a storm like that in Lake Tahoe normally serene for decades, if never.
The authorities announced Monday that they had found two additional bodies after a 27 -foot tourist tourist boat capsized.
According to the Coast Guard.
The Sheriff’s Bureau of the County of El Dorado did not identify any of the victims – although they declared that the six people initially found dead were all adults.
“The identifications of the deceased from this terrible incident is not published as long as the appropriate notifications have not been taken,” the authorities said in a statement.
The accident occurred in the southwest corner of Lake Tahoe, the largest Alpine Lake in North America. The area is known for its sun – an alpine lake surrounded by mountains of Sierra Nevada.
The storm disappeared almost as quickly as it is.
The photos and videos of Mrs. Brantino show the gray sky and the massive swells disappearing at 4:30 p.m., with the waters of the sun and sapphirers that return to Lake Tahoe.
