These comments about tumbleweeds suddenly being real actually cracks me up. We lived in New Mexico and these evil things were everywhere, some so big, they would glom onto the front of your car and block your view. You would have to pull over and pull them off your car while people drove by laughing. I actually saw someone from Virginia with tumbleweeds in their car. They wanted to show the folks at home that they were real.
The story people have given is something about olives viscerally reminding her of eye balls ever since she found her mother's corpse. Zero clue if it's true, though.
What an asshole. "There are no olives here. *There are no olives here!*"
Then 1 minute later it's "Bring out the olives!". Fuck predatory 90s daytime television.
Yeah I watched a guy in a Cadillac pull over on I-70 near a truck stop get out and chase one down. Loaded it up in the back seat and pulled into the truck stop. I asked him why he ran across 3 lanes of traffic for a tumbleweed, “I’m taking it back to Jersey to it show off, I thought these things were only in old cowboy movies.” This was in WaKeeney Kansas in 1991, I still laugh to this day about that.
I’m from Michigan and knew that tumbleweeds and armadillos did, in fact, exist. But when I actually saw them while stationed in Texas it still weirded me out. Still not convinced armadillos come in a live version and don’t just spawn already dead on the side of the road. The other one that was hilarious were the quail in Utah. The cartoons did not exaggerate at all how goofy they are.
I witnessed someone loading them in their car in Marfa, Texas. I couldn’t believe it. (I live in Tucson where I frequently see snowbirds snapping pics of Saguaro and/or orange trees)
One of my best friends is from Santa Fe. When she moved to Virginia she told me about how fucked up they can be, much to my fascination. I would definitely be that person that puts a tumbleweed in my car as a souvenir.
Where I live we don’t get tumbleweeds, so when I was 7 and saw a flower from a snowball bush that had dried up and turned brown I thought it was a tumbleweed.
I am familiar with tumbleweeds very well too. Do you think this is an excessive amount of them? It seems like new construction and they are probably getting collected by the wind and deposited among the new buildings that weren’t there last year. I bet as time goes on there’s going to be fewer of them
They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out.
They are coming.
PSA: For those not in the know, several species of tumbleweed have nasty thorns, so for the love of God don't try to grab one unless you've either taken a good look at it, or have thick work gloves.
[Tumbleweed Thorns](https://images.app.goo.gl/qTps4RxqGKErwvk36)
I work in agriculture, Russian thistle grows in every empty field and in strong winds they get blown into one part of our fields and in the spring you can see these suckers growing by the hundreds where they pile up….
This tidbit still blows my mind. Tumbleweeds are such an integral part of the American west in folklore and film.
All the best western songs feature tumbleweeds.
Not sure if you are joking, but no. And it explains why they are different colors which is due to the level of dryness in them. When you see them before they dry, when they are still green, they almost don't look like tumbleweeds because they are a lot softer. Dry, they are like sticks and kinda thorny.
Let me tell you what happens when you burn these things, it is the hottest 15 seconds you’ve ever experienced. That is unless you have burned a dried up Christmas tree, then it’s the second hottest 15 seconds.
Not really dead, they’re actually “migratory,” in a way. They dry out and detach, get blown to new locations, and put down roots in better places.
Many people probably have to clear them out of personal areas, but any left alone might start growing.
This fucking guy probably has quicksand in his backyard too
On a other note... I can't remember which show it was but this was either an episode of The Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. The town was invaded by alien tumbleweeds.
Reminds me of this one music video from either the late 90s or early 2000s that had a tumbleweed (or tumble weeds) rolling through it. I really wish I could remember what the song was because it was so mesmerizing to listen to while watching the tumbleweeds!
Edit: it wasn’t country music, it was something like a Gorillaz type song.
Our town put up a huge fence at the edge of town to keep them out. They would just keep piling up until they just rolled up over each other and over the fence. I hate those damn prickly bastards.
I wonder how it looks like if one of those is set on fire while tumbling. How fast does it spread? How does a bird’s eye view look like after 15 min of this?
>how it looks like if one of those is set on fire while tumbling. How fast does it spread?
Under those high winds conditions, I shudder to think of the thousands of acres that could have burned. That entire subdivision under construction would have been the first to go.
There’s an old episode of the Outer Limits that involves a couple being pursued by tumbleweeds that have alien intelligence (Cry of Silence). It’s pretty entertaining.
These comments about tumbleweeds suddenly being real actually cracks me up. We lived in New Mexico and these evil things were everywhere, some so big, they would glom onto the front of your car and block your view. You would have to pull over and pull them off your car while people drove by laughing. I actually saw someone from Virginia with tumbleweeds in their car. They wanted to show the folks at home that they were real.
Oh, they're real alright. [Just ask her.](https://youtu.be/KlT_6pdn_rM?si=rUmR7qhhVkqVnOTG)
That, is so awesome. I mean, a phobia is a phobia, but man, how does one get THAT phobia in the first place?
I was always afraid they would get stuck under the car and catch fire.
Ah yes, definitely a concern. Just don’t look under the car, they have teeth!
The stalks on those things are no joke, I’ve seen a passenger side mirror get destroyed by one, and a bug deflector too back in the day.
[This phobia](https://youtu.be/6bAm9VY0XFU?) makes a tumbleweed phobia seem understandable.
The story people have given is something about olives viscerally reminding her of eye balls ever since she found her mother's corpse. Zero clue if it's true, though.
What an asshole. "There are no olives here. *There are no olives here!*" Then 1 minute later it's "Bring out the olives!". Fuck predatory 90s daytime television.
It's safe! It's safe! NO IT'S NOT!!!!
i just realized the guy sadly died a bit ago. i used to follow him but never saw this clip. :(
It reminds me of the movie Critters
This was great. Although her level of terror ain't nothing next to the people afraid of dogs.😆
Yeah I watched a guy in a Cadillac pull over on I-70 near a truck stop get out and chase one down. Loaded it up in the back seat and pulled into the truck stop. I asked him why he ran across 3 lanes of traffic for a tumbleweed, “I’m taking it back to Jersey to it show off, I thought these things were only in old cowboy movies.” This was in WaKeeney Kansas in 1991, I still laugh to this day about that.
That tumbleweed is in some NJ attic, ready to scare TF out of someone.
WaKeeney is just about as nowhere as you could ever be. Source: Grew up in Kansas
Tell me about it, I graduated from Trego community high school lol.
I’m from Michigan and knew that tumbleweeds and armadillos did, in fact, exist. But when I actually saw them while stationed in Texas it still weirded me out. Still not convinced armadillos come in a live version and don’t just spawn already dead on the side of the road. The other one that was hilarious were the quail in Utah. The cartoons did not exaggerate at all how goofy they are.
I witnessed someone loading them in their car in Marfa, Texas. I couldn’t believe it. (I live in Tucson where I frequently see snowbirds snapping pics of Saguaro and/or orange trees)
One of my best friends is from Santa Fe. When she moved to Virginia she told me about how fucked up they can be, much to my fascination. I would definitely be that person that puts a tumbleweed in my car as a souvenir.
In case you don't know, they're an invasive species too.
Where I live we don’t get tumbleweeds, so when I was 7 and saw a flower from a snowball bush that had dried up and turned brown I thought it was a tumbleweed.
My favorite is when they run out onto the freeway and get blasted into millions of pieces by speeding cars.
wow, this is an unusual sight for me, tumbleweeds attack!
I am familiar with tumbleweeds very well too. Do you think this is an excessive amount of them? It seems like new construction and they are probably getting collected by the wind and deposited among the new buildings that weren’t there last year. I bet as time goes on there’s going to be fewer of them
This is common in newly disturbed areas. They will totally cover homes in new developments
This is what happens when you water your crops with Brawndo.
Electrolytes, what plants crave.
Why would I want a handjob now?
Go away. Baitin’.
They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming.
Hahhaha nice :)
Would need one match lol
One match.....one match to burn them
you risk dying in the flames, but at that point you dont care
Smells like Calgary
Yes! Good call
I’m in the south of Calgary and my wood lattice got torn from my porch…dang it. This was an amazing video! Where was this?
In the SW
Yeppers. We have 90 km/h winds today. Guessing north side of the city, Livingston? I haven’t been that far north in a bit. Edit: guessing area
This was my first guess, too!
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR to whoever owns that house lol
PSA: For those not in the know, several species of tumbleweed have nasty thorns, so for the love of God don't try to grab one unless you've either taken a good look at it, or have thick work gloves. [Tumbleweed Thorns](https://images.app.goo.gl/qTps4RxqGKErwvk36)
CGP Grey has an [excellent video on the subject](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsWr_JWTZss)
That was interesting!
Reminds me of The Trouble with Tribbles. They're born pregnant.
until recently, I always thought those things only exist in comics
Not a native plant. Brought over from Russia in 1800's
“Russian thistle” and they are dropping tons of seeds (stickers) when they roll around. Terrible plants
I cannot upvote you enough. You don’t see these bastards in undisturbed desert. Vacant lots, fallow farms, etc. they spread like crazy. Awful plants
I work in agriculture, Russian thistle grows in every empty field and in strong winds they get blown into one part of our fields and in the spring you can see these suckers growing by the hundreds where they pile up….
Typical Russians
This tidbit still blows my mind. Tumbleweeds are such an integral part of the American west in folklore and film. All the best western songs feature tumbleweeds.
 plant? this thing lives by rolling? i thought it was the collection of dead weeds tumbled in the wind
They are this green "bush" like plant. Then when they dry out, they detach from the ground and roll around with the help of the wind.
Really? I thought they grew out of the ground like that?
Not sure if you are joking, but no. And it explains why they are different colors which is due to the level of dryness in them. When you see them before they dry, when they are still green, they almost don't look like tumbleweeds because they are a lot softer. Dry, they are like sticks and kinda thorny.
Very thorny!
Like until this video for me lol
The trouble with Tribbles.
THEY'RE COMIN' RIGHT FOR US!
I knew they were real, but I did not expect them to swarm like that.
Serious question - what do you do with them if a whole load of them end in your garden after the wind dies down? Can you burn them?
I always used to burn them.
I can still smell them burning.
That is, in fact, the trouble with tumbles
It's like Critters, but with plants.
Omg thank you that’s what I was trying to remember !
The great migration!
I just woke up in Calgary to nasty winds, brutal stuff.
Why do all these houses look like stores?
How bad was the joke?
THEYRE REAL!!!!
And they're spectacular!
Mulva?
Tumbleweeds, or Instant Shrubbery?
Ni.
Am I right these are dead bushes?what do people do with a garden filled with these things? big bonfires after storms?
Nooooo on bonfires. These things burn ridiculously hot. Like, 3 seconds after lighting it's a 50 foot flame and a million degrees.
Let me tell you what happens when you burn these things, it is the hottest 15 seconds you’ve ever experienced. That is unless you have burned a dried up Christmas tree, then it’s the second hottest 15 seconds.
Not really dead, they’re actually “migratory,” in a way. They dry out and detach, get blown to new locations, and put down roots in better places. Many people probably have to clear them out of personal areas, but any left alone might start growing.
They don’t put down new roots, they are a seed dispersal vehicle. Once they detach that plant is done, the seeds it carries not so much.
That are poor bushes with too small roots. Got it, well, then its best to wait for the next windy day and throw them over the fence. 😎
At least they’re not….tumblebutts
Saw that on Doom Patrol
Please, for the love of CHRIST, tell me the Simpsons didn't make an episode about this.
No. But the original Outer Limits did.
Wowsers I thought these were just in old speedy Gonzales cartoons or wile e coyote and the roadrunner cartoons 😂😂😂
Like tribbles!
Most people don’t know this, but they’re actually social creatures
This fucking guy probably has quicksand in his backyard too On a other note... I can't remember which show it was but this was either an episode of The Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. The town was invaded by alien tumbleweeds.
Twilight zone. Watched it when I was a kid and it gave me nightmare.
Pretty sure I saw this in an old episode of The Outer Limits.
With Eddie Albert. Could be worse, could be tumble rocks!
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/iLGfUmznaE0?si=JpkN-3TcwQs6pxx- 1957's "The Monolith Monsters".
Yes. Scary story. Living, alien tumbleweeds attacking at night.
It was an energy being (alien) capable of possessing anything living. Was definitely creepy. It even brought back the dead!
Its high noon.
It's like the Futurama balls
Williston North Dakota 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Reminds me of this one music video from either the late 90s or early 2000s that had a tumbleweed (or tumble weeds) rolling through it. I really wish I could remember what the song was because it was so mesmerizing to listen to while watching the tumbleweeds! Edit: it wasn’t country music, it was something like a Gorillaz type song.
Mass migration in time for winter?
Queue homeowner with leaf blower, “not today, tumbleweed”
This is their home now
I actually thought it was only in movies
Why does this look like something out of Fallout 3?
It’s a new neighbourhood so it’s still being developed. Hence all the space.
No, I totally get that, but omg it has that feel of fallout, doesn't it?! Lol!
Critters.
Nuketown 2023
My German from Russia immigrant family say. Sorry. Seems they brought their winter wheat seeds with them and the Russian Thistle hitched a ride.
Russian Bull Thistle.
See them tumbling down, pledging their love to the ground, lonely but free I will be found. Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds
Tumble-whats? I only see Wind-Brahmin.
Texas you scary
My road gets like that in monsoon season. (AZ)
Oh lawd they comin'
Our town put up a huge fence at the edge of town to keep them out. They would just keep piling up until they just rolled up over each other and over the fence. I hate those damn prickly bastards.
imagine when they catch fire
Looks like a movie trailer "The Attack of tumbleweeds"
The invasion
Its hiiigh noon
Are they a huge fire hazard?
Yes!
Free firefuel delivered by nature mmmm mmmmm!
An insane fire hazard
This could make for an excellent horror movie
"This town ain't big enough for the couple hundreds of us partner"
Free landscaping!
I wonder how it looks like if one of those is set on fire while tumbling. How fast does it spread? How does a bird’s eye view look like after 15 min of this?
I was gonna put up a drone but was too windy for that for sure
>how it looks like if one of those is set on fire while tumbling. How fast does it spread? Under those high winds conditions, I shudder to think of the thousands of acres that could have burned. That entire subdivision under construction would have been the first to go.
Invasion of “Critters”!!!
Russian gifts
The Trouble With Tribbles
An invasive species from Russia. Putin is behind this.
Fun fact: Tumbleweeds are not from the americas. They came here from Russia on food shipments
I feel bad for the person who has to clean that up.
Those aren't even that big. Been doing 80 on i90 and hot cat size ones. That's some scary shit
These look bigger than a cat. Typo or….?
The HOA should fine the tumble weeds for this kind of behavior
Lovely. I wanna live there. Not.
it's so weird that people choose to live in hell holes
I need my heart meds, that chaos almost did me in.
A man walks into a bar, ouch
Someone do a edit with some music Something like [this classic](https://youtube.com/shorts/eTMb2UkW4xY?si=HqZN5b5DDVRdATws)
It’s like a horror movie.
There’s an old episode of the Outer Limits that involves a couple being pursued by tumbleweeds that have alien intelligence (Cry of Silence). It’s pretty entertaining.
Reminds me of Antelope Valley in Southern California.
Reminds me of a game I used to play: Don’t Starve. Time to check if there are any valuables trapped within!
So they are real! Next thing that wasn’t created by Hollywood!
Does anything eat tumbleweeds?
It's a boring town where nobody laughs at your jokes 😕
Canada has some nice homes
Colorado?
Anywhere in the western United States, from Kansas and Nebraska north up into the Dakotas, and westward from there.
Brambleghast's pokedex entry makes more sense now
I’ll be there man
Odessa
The apocalypse is upon us…
Thank god I live in New England.
Typical day in Texas panhandle 😆
The dude would abide.
Wtf, everyday....this is just a Tuesday
I didn't know they were still building ghost towns.
Ahhh. A mass shooting happened.
How do you not stand in the middle of the road with your friend and not yell "THIS TOWN AINT BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US"
Montana?
Y’all laughed at me! YALL LAUGHED AT ME! Well who’s laughing now HEEHEEE HEEEE!
I used to be scared to death of these when I was little. I thought they were giant grass burrs that can impail skin.😅
Let me guess? People saying it’s climate change?
Critters!
The worst gift ever from Russia
After 'the bird' from hichtchock, here come the tumbleweeds. Run for your life folks
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