Residents left shocked and devastated after Georgia lake disappears overnight

Violent storm causes dam to break.

Residents of Newman in Coweta County, Georgia, who have lived there for decades, woke up to a devastating and shocking event. Their neighborhood lake had completely vanished overnight, after a thunderstorm.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The Aspen Lake was thoroughly erased from the map last weekend, as a slow-moving storm passed through the area. While the lake's residents slept, the torrential rains caused the nearby 50-year-old dam, that kept the water in place, to break apart. Consequently, the water flooded out and left nothing but an enormous puddle.

Now, the Aspen Lake is just a thick, drenched mud hole with little that can be done about it because the lake sits on private property. Some believe a tornado that went through the area seven years ago may have weakened the structure.

The locals say that the intensity of the rain was something they had never experienced. Wayne Brown, a resident, stated to the AJC, "It's gone. Nine years of everything is just gone here for me."

Harvey Cooper, his neighbor, shared, "Needless to say, I could not believe what I was looking at... We just loved our lake. It's a total loss."

According to families in the area, they bought their homes there precisely because of the lake.

The Coweta County Board of Commissioners met with the residents to present them with possible options. The dam's rebuilding and reconstruction will be extremely expensive, but some residents are insistent that things need to be restored to the way they were. However, as far as public money goes, the county assured that they will not be the ones to pay the bill to help the locals rebuild.

"I need it back for me, my grandkids. I mean, that was our life. That's what we bought this place for," said Wayne.

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