SAFETY ~ Arizona Sun & your Car !

[locolobo13]

When buying perishables you should go straight from the store to home. Unless you have cold storage. There used to be a chart for dairy products. It listed product temperature not storage room temp. It also mentioned time at temp.

Can't remember much. That was the 70s. But 45°F was as hot as you wanted your milk to get. 1 hr at that temp and bacteria started growing. A few minutes, no prob. Usually that first growth of bacteria was just a "quality" (taste) matter.

As to safety issues with kids and pets. It ain't worth it. Take 'em with you or leave 'em at home. That said I can remember my Mom leaving us kids in the car in the 60s. Windows all the way down, stern warning about what would happen if we touched the brakes. She was never actually out of sight. Would turn around and give us a stern look from time to time.

[elcajones]

My method when I'm just going away from my truck for a short amount of time is to lock it up and bring the spare key with me to lock it and keep it running. It just gets so damn hot in there and takes FOREVER to cool back down.

[Ponderosa]

Do not leave cans of soda or beer in your car. Kaboom! This applies from March through early November.

[jimj]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Do not leave cans of soda or beer in your car. Kaboom! This applies from March through early November.

Yep! I can attest to this as my son forgot a 12 pack of coke that decorated the whole inside of his new car. Even after having a detailer work on it for several hours never did get it all out of the headliner.
Pillsbury (canned) Biscuits/Rolls are also real interesting when exposed to heat.
Example (true story):
In Whitefish MT lady calls 911 in grocery store parking lot saying she thinks she's been shot, she heard a big bang and something hit her head. She tells the dispatcher she can feel her brain hanging out of the back of her head... HURRY I'm dying!!

Ambulance and PD arrive to find her sitting in her car and upon closer inspection of her head find biscuit dough stuck in her hair and the remnants of a can in the back seat.

[Colt AZ]

Originally Posted by jimj

Pillsbury (canned) Biscuits/Rolls are also real interesting when exposed to heat.
Example (true story):
In Whitefish MT lady calls 911 in grocery store parking lot saying she thinks she's been shot, she heard a big bang and something hit her head. She tells the dispatcher she can feel her brain hanging out of the back of her head... HURRY I'm dying!!

Ambulance and PD arrive to find her sitting in her car and upon closer inspection of her head find biscuit dough stuck in her hair and the remnants of a can in the back seat.

According to Snopes, this particular story has been making the rounds for a while, like since the '90's.snopes.com: The Biscuit Bullet

[jimj]

Originally Posted by Colt Cassidy

According to Snopes, this particular story has been making the rounds for a while, like since the '90's.snopes.com: The Biscuit Bullet

Thought that might be the case but it sure sounded good when told to me (makes a good story with a point at the end) and given heat inside car and those cans are in fact "poppin' fresh" I figure that there's probably some truth to the story. Time to send this to Mythbusters??!

I would have never guessed soda cans would have blown up until moving to AZ and talking with beer/soda delivery guys about how they have explosions on occasion in their trucks.

[MNSvenska]

Gosh! 180 degrees on the dash of a suv!
That's gotta do major damage to a car's interior!
I usually park facing away from the sun, in the shade or use windshield shades, with the windows cracked, while shopping. Thankfully, we do have a 2 car garage at home, facing north.

[locolobo13]

Originally Posted by jimj

Thought that might be the case but it sure sounded good when told to me (makes a good story with a point at the end) and given heat inside car and those cans are in fact "poppin' fresh" I figure that there's probably some truth to the story. Time to send this to Mythbusters??!

I would have never guessed soda cans would have blown up until moving to AZ and talking with beer/soda delivery guys about how they have explosions on occasion in their trucks.

In the 70s working at a local grocery, we were disposing expired biscuits in the back room. The temp wasn't hot, mid 70ish, the biscuits were several days expired. We probably had around 10 cases to dispose.

Somebody dropped a can and it hit on the end at a slight angle. The can shot up 5 or 6 feet in the air trailing biscuits like a rocket. Like true rocket scientists we began experimenting. Most of the cans if they hit on the end with just the slight angle would "rocket" into the air trailing biscuits. It was cool!

There were four of us aged 16-19 and of course the inevitable happened. Somebody threw a biscuit at one of the others. All the biscuits ended up all over the walls and floor and us. Not so cool cleaning it up.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Do not leave cans of soda or beer in your car. Kaboom! This applies from March through early November.

Friends with kids also warn of leaving crayons in the car on a hot day. It makes quite the mess!

[Colt AZ]

Originally Posted by locolobo13

In the 70s working at a local grocery, we were disposing expired biscuits in the back room. The temp wasn't hot, mid 70ish, the biscuits were several days expired. We probably had around 10 cases to dispose.

Somebody dropped a can and it hit on the end at a slight angle. The can shot up 5 or 6 feet in the air trailing biscuits like a rocket. Like true rocket scientists we began experimenting. Most of the cans if they hit on the end with just the slight angle would "rocket" into the air trailing biscuits. It was cool!

There were four of us aged 16-19 and of course the inevitable happened. Somebody threw a biscuit at one of the others. All the biscuits ended up all over the walls and floor and us. Not so cool cleaning it up.

Originally Posted by ElleTea

Friends with kids also warn of leaving crayons in the car on a hot day. It makes quite the mess!

WARNING: Friends don't let friends play with tall cans of biscuit dough... nor should they allow crayons into their vehicles -- during HOT Arizona days.