Trucks Don't Float

Lake Pepin claims another.

The Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office responded to a vehicle that went through the ice on Lake Pepin on March 21st at 5:17 pm. The driver was very lucky to escape from the sinking vehicle through a rear window and rolled on the ice away from the vehicle that submerged in seconds. The Sheriff’s Office is warning of very poor ice conditions and warns people to stay off the ice by foot and motor vehicles. Responding agencies included the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota DNR, Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, Ellsworth Fire and Maiden Rock Ambulance.

Icelandic cod is pretty cheap folks!

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Or drive a couple hours north? We have 30″ of ultra clear solid ice in Alexandria! I just hope it’s gone for the walleye opener!

Exactly Joe!

I was talking to a resort owner 10 or so years ago.
He was saying his business revolved around the Metro Areas ice.

If the media reported bad ice there, people felt the ice wasn’t good up North too Even if they were driving full size trucks out there.

Where are the tire tracks leading up to the hole? I see someone drove very close.

@bigcrappie here you go! I put some red lines to show where it seems the tracks are.

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I see now, I was looking at the deeper tracks, looks like a light truck from the tracks and the hole size.

Evan Pheneger wrote:

@bigcrappie here you go! I put some red lines to show where it seems the tracks are.

If I have a K Drill in the bed of my truck, will the k-drill’s buoyancy assist my truck in full flotation?

If not, how many K-drill’s would be needed to successfully turn my truck into a marine vehicle? If I point all the K-drill’s backwards and turn them on at the same time, could I do 20 mph?

Apparently there’s 15″ of ice all around the hole.

There was full size trucks out last Sunday.

Photo’s of Frotenac last Sunday

Bonehead jones

15″ or 24″ the only ice to be trusted is in a cocktail glass.

Dutchboy wrote:

15″ or 24″ the only ice to be trusted is in a cocktail glass.

And sometimes even that can’t be trusted!

Does anyone know where on the lake the truck went down? Looking at the ice measurements from yesterday, the only safe ice on the lake is from the south side of lake city to just past deer island…

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Apparently there’s 15″ of ice all around the hole.

There was full size trucks out last Sunday.

Photo’s of Frotenac last Sunday

Maybe it was a Ram Tungsten edition that sinks faster than other trucks the same size?

I know its a picture, but that hole looks awfully small for a truck to go in. Just have went straight down nose first. usually the holes are much larger than that.
I have to wonder if salt falling off vehicles driving around on the ice can be to blame for stuff like this? There was a Polaris Ranger that just went through the ice up in Fergus (I think), driving right on the plowed path/road on the lake. All the ice around it was thick, but that spot apparently only had 4 inches.

I noticed that too Cpt. All I have is what’s posted above by Goodhue County.
I’m thinking when they say “fast” it was FAST! LOL!

I have seen very small holes (similar to that) sink a full-size truck no problem.
Pretty common late ice if a spot is considerably thinner than the area immediately surrounding. The ice is thick enough at the rear of the vehicle to support it without breaking. Same for the area just after where the truck broke, the truck sort of slides against both edges of the hole until it’s vertical and it sinks faster than a 9mm tungsten on 1# test.

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I have seen very small holes (similar to that) sink a full-size truck no problem.
Pretty common late ice if a spot is considerably thinner than the area immediately surrounding. The ice is thick enough at the rear of the vehicle to support it without breaking. Same for the area just after where the truck broke, the truck sort of slides against both edges of the hole until it’s vertical and it sinks faster than a 9mm tungsten on 1# test.

Yeah, this is most likely the case. Just the front end went in at first then tipped straight down.