It's been an unusually cold, windy week for April on Cedar Creek Lake, and the presence of many cars, people and law enforcement officers with a search boat at the old closed Causeway Marina parking lot in Seven Points April 16 proved to be an ominous sign.

A recovery effort is underway for a fisher in his mid-40s who apparently drowned in the lake after the boat carrying him and his nephew capsized in the cold water when high winds arose that morning. The overturned boat was found.

(UPDATE: The body of the 42-year-old Kemp resident was found the following day. He was identified as Darin Karl. His nephew, a 24-year-old college student from Mabank, was treated for hypothermia, and he is now recovering at home.)

As emergency responders searched for the man, about a dozen somber adults with children waited in front of the marina store that closed last summer during the drought.

After balmy days in the 70s and 80s, the weather turned bitterly cold, rainy and windy recently. Thunder storms brought much needed rain to the area.

Despite the cold weather, people fished in waders near the shore and in boats on the lake this week after the rain ceased.

The picture below taken April 15 shows white caps on the lake near the Highway 334 Causeway Bridge where the search for the drowned man is underway.

The nephew told rescuers that he swam to an island in the lake after the boat capsized, and he lost sight of his uncle. He used his cell phone to call for help. Emergency rescue workers found him by tracking pings from his phone.

The tragedy is a reminder that anyone on boats in Cedar Creek Lake should be wearing life vests, but it is not known at this time whether the fishermen wore the protective gear.

Cedar Creek Lake is still almost four feet low beneath full pool, but the high winds recently seen in the area can still create large waves that can make boat travel dangerous.

UPDATE: The body of the 42-year-old Kemp resident was found the following day. He was identified as Darin Karl.