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Peanuts Show up in the Darnedest Places!

Imagine my horror one morning when we woke up to find that the kitchen sink had leaked and water was running into the basement.

That's not the horrifying part.

Water was, of course, everywhere. When we got the leak fixed, we turned out attention to clean-up. Our heating and air conditioning ducts had water in them. Concerned about mold, we immediately set out to clean them.

Here's where the horrifying part comes in...

When we began to take apart the duct work, we found peanut shells! Lots of them...as well as candy bar and granola bar wrappers in the ducts. At that point, our house was nearly 8 years old and we believe the construction workers, eight years prior, were using the duct openings as a garbage chute.

We read labels and avoid any foods that "may contain peanuts", but we never thought to protect our peanut allergic child by cleaning our heating ducts.

Peanuts do turn up in the darnedest places!

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Oh my gosh! My heart

Oh my gosh! My heart certainly goes out to you..And now I'm quite fearful, ahaha. I'm curious to know whether this may have happened in schools, offices, etc. and if we PA people are in additional danger?

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