GRAPEVINE — A pounding rain has Lake Grapevine swelling so fast that hopes of setting sail this Memorial Day weekend are quickly being washed away.
Unless you're Wesley Musselwhite of Fort Worth and his crew.
"We're hardcore boaters," he said surrounded by a couple friends and while holding his Yorkshire Terrier.
"This is Elvis," he continued with a smile. "He's a lake dog. He enjoys this."
Their boat is already docked at the marina so they're wading through wet weather to get there, but they're hitting roadblocks.
The parking lot is swallowed up in rising water. Handicap parking signs peak out from the rising water.
"Pretty soon, it's just going to be where nobody can get in here," said Sherry Hickman. "It's so full."
Not a single boat ramp is open. Eleven are closed, along with two high water boat ramps.
The lake itself is bursting 16 feet above the conservation level. That's 25 feet higher than last year.
"Last summer when I came out here, it was almost 13 feet under what it usually is," explained Victor Auxenfans. "This is pretty crazy."
He works at at Waterway Adventures and says this isn't the adventure boaters are searching for.
"We've had a bunch of trips had to cancel," he said.
The trips have been canceled because the sky keeps crying, drowning out the drought.
"I think we needed this water," said Auxenfans.
Now as boats sit covered in cobwebs, many North Texans are questioning if we're being showered in too much rain.
"It wasn't but a couple months back, we were hurting for water," said Musslewhite. "The lake levels were really low, and now they're too full."
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman says the last time flooding was this bad at Lake Grapevine was eight years ago in 2007. The water was four feet above where it is now, but we are bracing for another wet weekend.
