Recently got this via email.

Maybe some of you colder climate people could explain how this could happen? I'm guessing someone was late for work.

I heard that the water pipes over the garage burst...

Would this do any damage to the paint/car?

Having lived in parts of the U.S. where having your car buried under feet of snow isn't either uncommon nor cause for alarm, I'll chime in.

Generally speaking, if the WHOLE garage dropped in temperature evenly, and the vehicles themselves were also cooled down at the same rate, when the water hit and began to freeze there shouldn't be a lot of problems for the paint or car.

I remember an ICE STORM in Iowa that started out as a blizzard. For those of you in warmer climates that is where your Winter storm begins by dumping MASSIVE amounts of snow in a very quick hurry, THEN follow it up with a fast drop in temperature while a warm current of air flows over the top turning the blizzard into a RAIN shower. Now the rain freezes on contact, and you have the recipe for major disaster.

Now, in the method of THAWING that is where you could cause some serious problems.

I remember a neighbor literally ripping the gasketing off his Ford Torino when he yanked open his door, because he insisted that all he had to do was start up the car and turn up the heat. Well, it worked for the REST of the car, but his door gasket was shot.

Then there was the other neighbor lady who decided to dump 2 quarts of very warm water on her windshield to remove the ice. Can you say Star Crazy? As in shattered windshield? Or the idiot I heard about who used a small propane torch to heat up the locks and handles of his pickup truck so that the ice would melt, then forgetting they were very hot and literally branding himself when he opened the door.

As far as the paint, same thing applies, let it warm up with the metal, don't accelerate it except for VERY mild means, and don't pound on the sides of the car to "shake the ice loose".

FWIW

Enrique

Fire Sprinklers? or Broken water pipe? Whats your quess?

I have no clue what happened but that would sereiously suck!