I just picked up a chest freezer for $158+tax. Not the one here, but Menard's has their house brand 7 cu ft model for the same price until Dec 2.
I have been planning to do a bunch of lagers over the next couple months, with the first to go into lagering today or tomorrow. Around 1am this morning, I woke up and realized that it's not nearly cold enough to just let ambient garage temperatures do the lagering or hold a good fermentation temperature for the next batch. Panicked, I scoured the internet and found this deal, but went to bed thinking I was screwed because there's no way my wife would go for me buying another fridge for brewing so soon after putting together a temp controller for the refrigerator in our garage... Plus, we only have one outlet out there and it's already loaded to the limit of my comfort.
Anyway, when I woke up, I mentioned the freezer idly and she lit up and was not only going to put up with buying it, she was excited about it and volunteered that we could put it in the living room if we need to. (We ended up putting it in a study/storage room instead.)
There's a catch, though. If our other "homebrewing" projects go according to our hopes, the freezer is only mine for 9-10 more months, at which time its primary role will transition to breast milk storage...... I'll just leave it at that.
But for now, I think I'm going to switch the temp regulator over to the freezer and lager in the garage at its coldest setting. It looks like I can fit a couple carboys in this one, possibly even with airlocks without having to go to the trouble of building a collar.
The safety valve blew out. Luckily, I was in the left lane of a 4-lane road with a 45 MPH speed. I could not see nor breath and I was able to get into the center turning lane and get out. It took me a couple of hours to breathe normally.
Holy cow, you are lucky not to have blacked out. It only takes a couple breaths of oxygen-depleted "air" to cause a blackout. It's a major safety concern in labs... I'd say even at 45 mph, blacking out would be a problem! Glad your story ended with you posting about it on the Internet many years later!