You know [@jimapple] YOu can easily destroy that part south of the lake and turn it into an inwards sea you know  what that would make STORMS FOR DAYS with the mountain behind it creating cold wind plus lots of moisture plus warm currents from sea that would make that region Mordor with the amount of storms and i am not making this up this is possible it happens in earth... In Venezuela at Lake Maraicabo although not compared to what i said is still shows what happens when you mix cold and hot winds