So I just went out into the cryogenic chamber that is my garage, and discovered THIS...!

God - DAMMIT! I mean, excuse my strong language, but (A) I'm assuming we're all adults here, and (B) my vapor blaster steel buckets are ruined! Those bitches are frozen SOLID all the way down to the floor! 

The number there, in case you're wondering, is the grit of the glass bead I use; #80 gives me a basic finish, and #170 is in the bottom one, which polishes whatever it is I'm blasting. Which in turn brings me back to this one...! The pump itself! 

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is all the frozen ice in the vapor blaster bucket that holds my water pump, pushing its way through the bottom of a ten-gallon steel pail! And No, I'm not tilting it back to show you, that's the ice bulge pushing the bucket off the floor. FUCK!

(The white stuff is sealant I put on previously this past summer to caulk up the seams).

This one too is now frozen all the way down to the bottom, and as the first pic shows, popped out the bottom of the bucket. And I won't be able to see if it's okay until all this shit melts! The only saving grace I can think of is that round objects tend to distribute pressure all around them - I hope! 

As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, frozen ice can crush ship hulls, so I expected my steel buckets would present no obstacle - but SHIT...! I know ice expands as it freezes, but I thought with the bucket walls retaining it, it would freeze 'UP' - guess I was wrong. Well, actually I was right, because it also pushes down...! I didn't think about that.

Honestly though I didn't even think about the weather getting this cold, but it did...this didn't happen last year!

And here's the other one...!