UPDATE: Truck Sinks to Bottom of Lake Minnetonka; Sheriff Issues Thin Ice Warning
Two men narrowly escaped through sinking truck's windows Saturday morning.
What started out as an ordinary Saturday morning on the ice ended with a truck on the bottom of Lake Minnetonka and two area men thankful to be alive. Blair Walker said he a buddy were driving across Smith Bay just after 11 a.m. when chaos seemed to erupt out of nowhere. "I was riding passenger in my dad's truck and looking down at the GPS," the 20-year-old Orono resident said. "I looked up and saw some ice that just didn't look right. Before I knew it or could say anything there was water all around the truck." As the Chevy Silverado began to sink, Walker said he and his friend escaped out of the truck's windows. "I tried to put the window down as far as I could, but it stopped halfway," he said. "I crawled out, climbed on top of the …
