The sky was blue as the famous water of Taho Lake when Gloria Brigantino and his friends decided to anchor and get a rum cocktail. It was beginning to feel chili, and was raising the winds.

On the edge, a band was playing, and the people were swimming – the children were walking in their swims suits because the first official weekend of summer had closed in this popular California holiday spot.

It seemed that everything changed within minutes on Saturday. A storm went in, sent tents and canopies flying. Many boats were capsized due to white-capted water and 8 feet (2.5 m) swollen, including a 27-foot-filled vessel filled with tourists.

On Monday, the authorities confirmed two more people that the boat was found to be dead – the toll of death was taken to eight.

Ms. Brigantino, who was visiting the Alpine Lake between California and Nevada with friends from Texas and California, saw that the boats crashed into each other and ripped off their anchor and dashed the shore. Halling winds reaching 35mph (56 km/h) were also brought into a brief ice.

She used to see safely on the ground as she and her friends drown some personal belongings of their group, on the boat he and his friends were riding.

“Some owners of the boats were crying because their boats were ruined,” he told the BBC, saying that people put their lives at risk to help the charter boats down, as people were trying to get off the water amidst the situation of malfunction.

By then the band was packed and ran away. His platform was now under water, he said.

“I could smell the gas leak, some gentlemen helped the passengers take away from a pontoon boat, which got stuck in the shore,” said Ms. Brigantino. “The waves just cut it so fast that they fled, fell, many were crying.”

Within 35 minutes of the upcoming ash, she says that she piled nine boats in front of them.

Ms. Brigantino is a self-ensured cowgirl and was away with her friends who all work with horses in the Western industry. They were there to have fun and help a friend to make western-themed social media content. Photos and videos of his journey showed the group dancing with drinks and posing in a festive cap on the boat before the storm.

Ms. Brigantino said that she grew up in Taho Lake and knows that the weather can change rapidly.

“This suddenly happened. The water was just shouting towards the shore,” he said. “It was bad.”

Was forecasting bad weather, Ms. Brigantino says, but no one expected a section of such force. He and others said that he had not seen such a storm in the generally quiet lake Taho in decades, if ever.

Officials announced on Monday that they found two additional bodies after a 27 -foot tourist boat.

According to the Coast Guard, ten people of that vessel fell into the water around 15:00 local time on Saturday and only two were found alive.

The El Dorado County Sheriff Office has not identified any of the victims – although he said that six people were initially found dead.

Officials said in a statement, “The identity of the deceased from this terrible incident will not be released until appropriate information is given.”

The accident occurred in the southwest corner of North America’s largest Alpine Lake Taho. The region is known for its sunshine – a alpine lake surrounded by mountains in Sierra Nevada.

The storm had almost gone as soon as it arrived.

Pictures and videos of Ms. Brigantino disappear by gray skys and large -scale swollen by 16:30, in which sunlight and clean sapphire water returns to Lake Lake Taho.