Last summer, Denise and Robert Webb lost their 4,000-square-foot mansion overlooking Lake Whitney, Texas, to the savagery of nature after the cliff they built their home began slowly crumbling away into the water below.

Their house was condemned, forcing the couple to move out, but they refused to let the cliff have what was left of the home and the memories they may have shared inside, so they burned it down. And now finally, nearly a year later, the cliff itself has finally given way to nature’s call, and fallen into the sea below.

Other ideas to prematurely end the cliff’s life—before it could hurt someone—were also apparently explored. From NBC DFW:

One plan included detonating the cliff to control when it fell into the lake, another, perhaps more elaborate plan, included inflating balloons dropped into the fissure to push it away from the cliff and into the lake.

But God had another plan for the cliff—something more gentle, something kind: heavy rain in the area over the weekend finally felled the cliff.

“It was in the middle of a major storm and nobody was on the lake,” Tom Hemrick, Hill County emergency management coordinator, told the Houston Chronicle. “I think it’s the best-case scenario.”

RIP, cliff. May you finally find sweet relief from this hell we call life in the muddy depths of Lake Whitney.

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