Posted on 03/19/2014 7:10:26 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Tumbleweeds overtake neighborhood and trap families in their homes
Recent tornado-like winds have covered a Colorado Springs, Colorado neighborhood in tumbleweeds. The large dried plants have invaded the Cuchares Ranches subdivision to such a degree that some residents said they were trapped in their homes and had to call 911 for help.
“I look outside and tumbleweeds are literally blowing up and over our house,” Melissa Walker told KRDO NewsChannel 13. “I didn’t expect to be able to jump from my second story window into a pile of tumbleweeds.” In some places, the tumbleweeds are stacked 10-feet high.
As reported by KCNC CBS 4, the neighborhood is under development and does not even appear on maps yet, so the tumbleweeds blow in from adjacent empty fields. The invaders are not new to Colorado Springs, but the locals say it has never been this bad.
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don't you just love these very short scripted sci-fi movies,
soon coming to NBC (nothing but cr@p) sy-fy network.
When I was growing up in El Paso, every Christmas season my mother had me find and bring home the biggest tumbleweed I came across.
We would spray it with that fake snow and decorate it. Lights and everything. Looking back it did look tacky in our front yard, but we had fun doing that every year.
Find the beauty in everything is the moral of this story.
Could be worse....
They could be attacked by Blancmanges, or
They could all be turned into Scotsmen.
I love that Outer Limits episode. It scared me something fierce when I was a little girl.
Lol! I’ve always referred to trash in the city as “urban tumbleweed”.
I agree with you but still…. If my house was buried in the stuff like some of those pictures and some guy was walking around flicking lit cigarette butts into the pile, I think that I’d be a bit concerned.
You are a genius.
People have been selling these on eBay for years.
Oh yea, I’d be all over him for that.
I’d also be getting them out away from my house.
Just sayin’ that while they’re highly flammable, it takes some crushing of the pile to make it really burn. If I could have gotten them to burn in big, loose piles, I sure would have taken advantage of that situation. ;-)
The house we owned previous to this one was overrun with field mice. One time my dryer stopped working and hubby pulled it out from the wall to look at it......tons of dog food started falling out. Apparently the little boogers were stealing the dogs food and storing it in the dryer. lol
That was my first thought as well (”The Outer Limits”).
Re your post 29: LOL! Great pics from a great show!
Tell my wife. She's a skeptic.
They’ll do the same thing with cars that are parked too long, my husband has replaced more than one muffler filled with dog or cat food. Especially if you are feeding outside or in the garage.
I once found a nest of baby mice in a dresser drawer. They stole all the insulation out of my stove, which made the oven cook slow because all the heat was radiating out. I caulked a gap around the water pipe and they chewed a new hole through the wall right next to the caulk overnight.
Mice are on my sh*t list for eternity.
She lives with you and I don’t, so she probably has a fair idea of who you are, but that post was very clever. The way you wrote the dialogue captions was perfect. You are a real Freeper.
Show her this and tell her that a pretty blonde horsewoman thinks you’re funny. ;-)
Must have been perfectly lovely!
lol
He looks very happy.
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