At least 10 are being deemed a total loss. One of those belongs to Laurie Oberhelman, who was visiting the festival for the first time. "We were coming in and there were a lot of cars and not a lot of parking spots, and we looked and I said oh look there's plenty of cars parked on the lake. People park on the lake all the time from what I understand so let's do it," she says. "It was a bad choice."
Renner Larson was there when it first started, and says the process happened very slowly. "As the ice bent downwards, water started coming up, and cars went in front-end first," he says. "Then water came up, and they slid in a little bit more." Dive teams worked to remove the cars one by one, as thousands gathered to watch the situation unfold.
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Police say nobody was injured, despite numerous people running to their cars as the ice caved in. "Fortunately it's only a property issue right now, and nobody was injured or in the vehicles when they started to submerge. So it's a bad day, but a good day at the same time," says Lt. Ed Gritzner. Signs are posted warning drivers to venture onto the ice at their own risk. Gritzner says the drivers of those vehicles will be responsible for all property damage.
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I'm going to be pissed if they receive any money from insurance.
Apropos of this and another post, I drove from our house on Lake Kegonsa to Lake Geneva when I was 11. My father was with me. He made me pass a written test on the workings of the internal combustion engine, identify everything under the hood, and change a tire before he taught me how to drive. I was as tall then as I am now, and nobody even noticed.
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