Climate Change Effect: Record drought returned lost town in Colorado as Lake Mead dries up

In 1938, almost 80years ago, St. Thomas an Old West town in United States was overran and lost to the incursion and flooding of the plain by Lake Mead in Colorado, near the Grand Canyon.

The sail of the tide was however reversed this year, no thanks to the scorching summer heat that hit some part of United States. Presently, the lake is almost dried up revealing the entire town that vanished almost ten decades ago.

The emerging ruins

 Expectedly, the gift of this year’s drought which has been said to be the longest in recent times has created a new tourists destination as it continues to draw people from other parts of the United Sates and the rest of the world.  At the site, tourists have the privileged of seeing the stone ruins and walk across parts of the lake bed, which has lost 60 per cent of its contents to this year’s drought.