I live west of Pueblo in the mountains. Around midnight its -1 F here.
Posted on 11/12/2014 11:06:00 PM PST by goldstategop
An arctic storm system has some Coloradans shoveling out from under tumbleweeds rather than snow.
Tumbleweeds piled up several feet high around houses and shops and along roads in and around Colorado Springs and Pueblo on Monday as the system moved from north to south across the state.
Peggy Perales of the National Weather Service in Pueblo says winds gusted up to 60 mph as the storm moved in.
That also kicked up blinding dust in the region, with the worst of it lasting for about an hour.
I live west of Pueblo in the mountains. Around midnight its -1 F here.
The house must be warm with all the tumble weeds acting as insulation.
With winter approaching it’s time for the global cooling scare. Al Gore will certainly tell you that along with the earth’s interior being millions of degrees, tumble weeds are caused by human activity.
Outer Limits — Cry of Silence. The ALIENS are in those tumbleweeds!
Ah, yes, proof of Glowbull Warming. I have pics of my house in a similar condition in Aurora CO circa 1963 or thereabouts.
Nobody drop a lighted cigarette....
Ouch. 88 degrees here, with 70% humidity. Ouch again.
Amazing how the mountain side gets sandblasted. Cars, windows,fences, houses,....
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Maybe it’s a dumb question, but how do you get rid of them? Stomp them down and compost them? Run them through a chipper? Throw them over the fence into the neighbor’s yard?
Looks so much worse than the cleanup of the leaves from a couple Midwestern oak trees in the yard!
They burn real well.
I remember piles of tumbleweeds like that back in the 1950s and 1960s.
For anyone who has lived in the west it is not new.
Nope, nothing new at all. If there’s any kind of open field upwind the potential for masses of tumbleweeds exists. The pic above is nothing like what hit our neighborhood. The first two streets on the west side of the development were buried up to the eaves.
Wait for a strong wind out of the south.
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