Great Flaming Wolf Spiders!!!
“Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.”
I drove into several huge tumbleweeds when I lived in Palm Springs and Palm Desert. Those things turn into powder.
The Outer Limits predicted this time would come.
There is a video on youtube showing a guy driving through a sandstorm in the desert. He’s got his highbeams on and his wife is absolutely freaking out as the tumbleweeds hit the car. It looked like a drive through car wash.
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I saw an OUTER LIMITS show on that a few days ago.
I once drove between Garden City and Liberal, Kansas.
The tumbleweeds had reached their peak and the wind was blowing around 30MPH. I was constantly being hit and I suspected they had done some damage to the pickup but when I got there, I didn’t see any.
There actually weren’t any tumbleweeds until the late 1890s. Russian immigrants brought Russian wheat into Kansas and there was some tumbleweed seeds in it.
So when you see Marshall Dillon walking the streets of Dodge City amid the tumbleweeds, it is fake.
I just finished a fascinating book about life during the Dust Bowl era. Without topsoil and rain, nothing would grow but tumbleweeds — Russian thistle — so the poor folks would pickle it and eat it.
They are edible so maybe we could range out a bunch of Ca vegans to keep them from spreading.
Climate change!! Trump’s fault!!
I thought they might show a picture of the new giant tumbleweeds.
That pic of Air Force guys cleaning up tumbleweeds in NM reminds me of what happened in my neighborhood around 1965. Except the tumbleweeds piled up higher than the eaves on our houses. They were just as big as those pictured too.
Thanks to a wet spring in central California, we have a bumper crop of tumbleweeds this year, especially along the railroad right-of-way. I look forward to the annual running of the tumbleweeds. A few years ago we had to rescue some elderly church members who lived near railroad lines from their nature-improvised weed barricades. On the other hand, sometimes here tumbleweeds are enlisted as California snowmen.
Also known as Russian Thistle.
Russia! Russia! Russia!
Welcome to the Columbia Basin, in Eastern Washington. The local community college in Pasco has the nickname, Tumbleweed Tech.
It’s Kalifornia. Can’t generate a whole lot of empathy for that Socialist septic tank.
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Wait, wait! Let me guess—global warming!
The K-blocks on i10 near Phoenix helps keep the cars and tumble weeds in play.