“Last year during the festival, the ice flooded then froze, freezing trucks, fish houses and everything else into the ice over one night.
Cass County spent $11,675, according to Administrator Joshua Stevenson, to help people get their equipment off the ice. The county was not reimbursed by either the event promoter or those whose equipment froze in the ice.”
taken from an article in the Brainerd Dispatch, might explain a lot