‘We Didn’t Know it was Going to be Like This': Firsthand Account and Video of Powerful Storm over Lake Lanier

Monday, August 10th, 2020

Karen Watts says in her 15 years living in Gainesville, she’s never seen a more powerful storm blast its way through the marinas at Lake Lanier than the one that passed through on Monday, Aug. 3

Watts, who has a 67-foot houseboat and pontoon at Aqualand Marina on the lake, said she was caught off guard when a wall of rain and winds some believed to have reached the 90-mph mark pummeled the marina, sinking docks and damaging boats. 

Read more at the Gainesville Times