Storm Wrecks Boats, Docks At Lake Lewisville

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Boat owners are calculating the damage Thursday after what was left of Tropical Storm Bill ripped out half the docks at one Lake Lewsivlle marina.

For weeks, a floating platform at the Dallas Corinthian Yacht Club has been how people have reached their docks cut off by floodwaters, but now half those docks along with the dozens of boats attached to them have crashed on the other side of the lake.

"It's painful to see her sitting right there in the midst of all this," says boat owner Tim Allen.  Allen's boat may be one of the last to be rescued from what's left of Dock Number Two. The wreckage is surrounding his boat, which may no longer be seaworthy.

"I think we'll probably have to move quite a few other boats, so it maybe three, four days before they finally get to my boat and get it out of here," says Allen.

Still, he's better off than his neighbor. A mast sticking up from the water is the only sign that a boat is still there. Mark Blanchard is the marina caretaker. He says the first dock broke loose around 8:00pm Wendesday, and that started a chain reaction.

"The waves that were coming in last night were coming in just randomly," says Blanchard. "The winds were blowing so hard. Once dock one crashed into dock two, they became one huge dock and then those same waves were building."

Now each boat owner will have to inspect the damage and try to see if they can dock somewhere else.

"A tropical storm of the one that we had last night, you just don't expect that," says Allen.

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