Tumbleweeds bury Clovis homes

KRQE ^ | 1/28/14 | Emily Younger

[Kartographer]

Clovis city officials say the whopping weeds are covering homes and blocking streets and residents are calling it the tumbleweed invasion of 2014.

“It looked like a herd of cows coming in,” said Clovis resident Lee Cassidy. “The tumbleweeds were just rolling in.”

After those tumbleweeds rolled in, they got stuck.

[Kartographer]

STAMPEDE!!!

[Kartographer]

[Kartographer]

NEW MEXICO PING!!!

[SZonian]

HA! They blew in from the Antelope Valley and Mojave Desert...

I was wondering where all of ours end up...now I know.

[lesko]

A common sight in eastern Wyoming.

[RipSawyer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWR6FLnPack

[RightGeek]

If you have a leaf blower, can you send them to the neighbors?

[VanDeKoik]

They've come to spawn!!



Either that or this is officially the most empty/dead town in west.

[yarddog]

Tumbleweeds are basically standard scene material in all Western movies.

The interesting thing is they were not native to the U.S. but were brought to America by Russian immigrants in the 1890s. They were accidentally mixed in with their wheat seeds.

[Tijeras_Slim]

When they get piled up the only way using a pitchfork.

[bigbob]

“TUMBLEWEEDMAGEDDON”

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— The interesting thing is they were not native to the U.S. but were brought to America by Russian immigrants in the 1890s -—

Cool info. Thanks.

[yarddog]

It is less commonly called “Russian Thistle”.

[SandRat]

[To Hell With Poverty]

Or better yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOplBXTO8io

[Rebelbase]

Migrating invasive species.

[JoeFromSidney]

Here in Ohio we have wind-driven snowballs. One ended up in my front yard.

[Beagle8U]

They look like something that would burn, I’d torch them.

[Kartographer]

"Migrating invasive species."

Like Democrats?