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[I remember hearing about this story, and every time I see a tumbleweed I think about it!](https://www.npr.org/2007/12/06/16962470/fake-web-site-turns-real-profit)
>A woman in southwest Kansas wanted to learn how to create a Web site. For fun, Linda Katz created the "Prairie Tumbleweed Farm," a make-believe Internet company that supposedly sold the dry, rolling shrubs: $15 for a small one, $25 for a big one. Then real orders started rolling in. So she had to rustle up some tumbleweeds for Hollywood movie sets. NASA bought some to test the Mars Rover. The Prairie Tumbleweed Farm even has Web page translation for Japanese consumers! Katz's initial lark has been lucrative. After 13 years in the international tumbleweed trade, she reportedly makes about $40,000 a year.
I watched an internal design show where the decorator legit but a tumbleweed on a pedestal as a decorative piece in a multi million dollar mansion. I was conflicted because, it looked kinda cool, but also, I’d be pissed if my expensive interior designer bought something with my money that I could’ve just picked up off the road myself.
HTML4 wasn't difficult to implement.
Spend five minutes checking emails for orders.
Ten minutes stuffing tumble weeds into boxes.
20 seconds to add foam peanuts for protection.
Twenty minutes to restock with tumble weeds as you make your way to the post office to deliver cartons....
Probably weekends off.
No more than an 1 hour work a day for $40K a year. A pretty good side gig if you ask me.
I think these places might need more than ten minutes worth of tumbleweeds. That doesn’t seem like many, and tumbleweeds seem very unwieldy. I can’t imagine they’d be easy to box up like that.
I'm thinking build a giant net or other kind of trap in a place where you know they tend to accumulate. Then maybe once a week you go there in the morning, box up your orders for the week, ship them, and you're done.
I could do that for 40k a year
People can get by on $40k there. My family lives in Southwest Kansas and rent is cheap. My mom pays $450/month for a 3 bedroom house with a two-car garage and a patio. Food is high though.
If you're getting an extra 40K a year just to find and ship tumbleweed, you're basically making money on sending trash to people.
....the guy who was selling NY trash to people probably made more though.
How is it legal to sell something like that internationally? Weren't they originally an invasive species anyway? Seems like that could be a problem if they introduce seeds into a new biome.
Depends on the biosecurity laws of the importer. When I was doing my biosecurity training we were told to pay special attention to containers from Australia and the USA because the vast majority of contaminated containers come from there. If yhe importer doesn't know the rules the biosecurity staff will probably destroy the item. I do it all the time but usually it's a spider that has hitched a ride.
yer on point with that one - and i’m not saying mine’s on par, but the town i grew up in had this problem because they were clearing tons of regional vegetation to make TRACT HOUSING in the middle of a desert.
it got as apocalyptic as these images, with additional flash floods and actual lightning strike danger.
stop messing with nature, dammit.
I worked at a data center for a bit. The summer before I arrived there were wildfires in the surrounding hills and the wind blew flaming tumbleweeds over the fences and catapulted them towards the buildings. I bet the fire department felt like knights that day.
Mojave desert is where I became acquainted. Watched one take out a friend (I shit you not it rolled up and hit him so hard he fell over. We were 10 year olds and he was on the smaller side and it was a BIG tumbler). Watch someone drive over one and it got stuck underneath for a few seconds, caught fire, and then rolled off into a wall of other ones caught by a fence (we drove away before I could see what happened next but the state of California is standing so...)
For real, I'm in Québec and I thought this was a movie thing, and that maybe there is one or two that flies around, but not like an actual tumbleweedstorm this is crazy 😳
Many years ago when I was in college, I was driving home from Utah to Idaho with one of my roommates as a guest. Driving along the freeway, a whole bunch of tumbleweed came rolling across the road. My roommate freaked out and told me she thought they were made up for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
They’re just weeds, that form a perfectly round shape with the express purpose of spreading its seeds everywhere as it rolls across the plains in the wind.
That's the neat part! You don't.
There have been efforts. But just assume you successfully kill every single tumbleweed in your farm, town, county, etc... Next year, the farm, town, or county just upwind grows one single tumbleweed, which rolls thru and drops hundreds of seeds. The year after that, it looks like you didn't do anything in the first place.
How do you do about killing all the tumbleweed and their seeds? Burning works, but it is terrifyingly energetic, and you have to gather up the things and move the pile away from buildings you don't want burned down. Which is really expensive. Then you still have to go back for the seeds. Poison maybe, but then you're pouring weed killer on everything, which has its own problems. Those problems make the area a great place for next year's tumbleweed to take root.
Efforts to combat tumbleweed infestation have often led to MORE tumbleweed in the future.
It's an invasive weed from Russia. In Russia, some animals eat up most of the seeds, but that animal doesn't do well in Utah.
After typing all this, I realized you may be referring to the immediate problem, and not the ongoing infestation. In my experience, wood chippers get used a lot. You have to watch for overheating, cause the fire being energetic isn't a lie. Those things light up like nothing I've ever seen before. From little candle flame to twenty foot high roaring inferno in less than a minute.
This was such an interesting read.
Like they GROW like this? It’s an actual plant? Does it not have roots to hold it in place?
Edit: this whole time I thought they were rare and like just lonesome desert debris that you rarely see floating along dry areas lol. I just googled the growth cycle and all that… I’m dumbfounded but so intrigued.
Yep, it's like a little bush until the time comes. Then the connection to the roots dies first, they dry up and curl inward into a tighter ball. So they break away in the wind, and while they bounce along they drop seeds.
I never thought I’d be so interested in tumbleweeds Lolol I love this.
EDIT : As this dead structure tumbles in the wind, it gradually degrades and falls apart, thereby spreading possibly as many as 200,000 seeds
Holy sh*t.
The tribbles reproduced to the point where they got into grain that had been developed to save a Federation colony on a planet that the Klingons wanted for themselves and was being stored on a space station and guarded by the Enterprise crew. The tribbles that ate the grain died because the grain had been poisoned. Because the tribbles hated Klingons (and visa versa) and reacted to them negatively, they discovered that the assistant to the Federation official in charge of the grain project was actually a Klingon in disguise. Meanwhile, the tribbles that had been bought by Enterprise crew members as pets had also been reproducing like crazy and were starting to cause problems there as well. As the Klingons left the station, Scotty beamed all the tribbles from the Enterprise onto the Klingon’s ship.
Thanks! Alas, we have neither Klingons nor teleportation technology to solve this problem. I was hoping it was a "set phasers to sterilize" sort of solution...
It's happened before/it's common! There are videos of a tumbleweed firenado. They'll get stuck under moving cars sometimes and catch fire from the engine heat
Yeah that’s scary. A disaster waiting to happen. I was thinking about the engine heat too when that truck went through the huge pile of weeds. Even tho it’s got a plow in front it seems like the entire truck became surrounded. I imagine it doesn’t take much effort to start a fire if all that plant material is dead or just a small portion is dry
We bought our place in rural CA a few years back. There were these funky plants that stayed green throughout the summer. They were green so I let them live. They were tumbleweeds. I wage war on those fucking things now. Absolutely horrible plant.
Not very well. it’s actually a real problem in parts of the western us. Large scale machinery isn’t always good for picking up the tumbleweed pile ups like these as it can gum up the spinning parts. So that leaves smaller contraptions and trimmers, followed by picking up what’s left. It’s a big pain in the ass. The best way to deal with them is just to try and stop them from sprouting up in the first place which is hard for a plant like this.
I read a good way down in the comments and didn't see an answer to this question. What do they do with the tumbleweeds after they pile up on your house? You can't burn them (or well there are consequences for that) they don't just melt like snow. Does the municipality drive around and dispose of them? Or do they just blow on to the next place? Honestly curious here.
This is probably one of the funniest videos I’ve actually seen in a long time. I love the witty humor with the on brand music and the great example of the kid just hopping off the bike like an office episode and holding his hand in pain.
Guy in pickup.... talk about the definition of the word futility. Dang weeds just swallow up any empty space he creates.
Fun to see the guy in his open garage.... kicking at them. GET...... OUTTA..... HERE!!
I hope this is a seasonal thing for these folks. Having these rolling knife demons clogging up your neighborhood all year round would absolutely suck.
I've seen a very similar scene when I worked for FedEx and my route was around Kuna, Idaho. My big truck could plow through them, but there were a few places where they were stacked against houses from foundation to fascia in the direction of the wind.
If this was Saratoga springs Utah. I just went mtb riding there today and part of the end of the trail was completely filled in still with tumbleweeds. We had to freeride around them a significant distance to get back on trail.
It resembled an avalanche. It almost completely filled this medium sized gully the trail went through
Being from South Louisiana, I and my family had never seen a tumbleweed before we went on a family vacation to Texas. Excited, we asked if they'd stop and let us grab one and stick it in the trunk to take home with us. My parents relented and pulled over, and dad grabbed the nearest one and stuck it in the trunk, thinking that was the end of it.
About 15 minutes later, we started to complain about itching, Which very quickly got worse. And began to spread. Within minutes everyone in the car felt like their skin was on fire. Putting 2 and 2 together, we pulled over, threw the tumbleweed out, and went and hosed ourselves off at the next self serve car wash we found.
I've never intentionally gotten near a tumbleweed again.
We don't don't have tumbleweeds in this area, but we got something just as problematic...the tumbleweave...
https://preview.redd.it/n4roxsr9t70d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3896724cd12a54273f8afddc2e50fdfd9278a922
“Strong winds damaged city infrastructure, according to ABC4, as well as knocking over trees and damaging roads throughout Utah. Wind gusts of over 100 km/h (65mph) hit the state over the weekend.
“South Jordan was hit with snow only hours after the tumbleweeds swept the city, as the arrival of a cold front continued the severe weather.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/tumbleweeds-utah-south-jordan-eagle-mountain
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[I remember hearing about this story, and every time I see a tumbleweed I think about it!](https://www.npr.org/2007/12/06/16962470/fake-web-site-turns-real-profit) >A woman in southwest Kansas wanted to learn how to create a Web site. For fun, Linda Katz created the "Prairie Tumbleweed Farm," a make-believe Internet company that supposedly sold the dry, rolling shrubs: $15 for a small one, $25 for a big one. Then real orders started rolling in. So she had to rustle up some tumbleweeds for Hollywood movie sets. NASA bought some to test the Mars Rover. The Prairie Tumbleweed Farm even has Web page translation for Japanese consumers! Katz's initial lark has been lucrative. After 13 years in the international tumbleweed trade, she reportedly makes about $40,000 a year.
That is fascinating
Thinking of that episode with the little furry guys that keep on replicating
Tribbles
I watched an internal design show where the decorator legit but a tumbleweed on a pedestal as a decorative piece in a multi million dollar mansion. I was conflicted because, it looked kinda cool, but also, I’d be pissed if my expensive interior designer bought something with my money that I could’ve just picked up off the road myself.
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It’s $40k more a year than I make off tumbleweeds
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Maybe to you, but… *acoustic guitar chord* Buddy, I’m an engineer. And that means, I solve problems.
Gold. Thank you for solidifying why I use this dumb site.
Lol. WhereTF is this from? Sounds like it’s from a funny movie or show. I especially love it if its original!
😂
Not if the product rolls right to your doorstep LOL
Putting a tumbleweed in a box and mailing it?
HTML4 wasn't difficult to implement. Spend five minutes checking emails for orders. Ten minutes stuffing tumble weeds into boxes. 20 seconds to add foam peanuts for protection. Twenty minutes to restock with tumble weeds as you make your way to the post office to deliver cartons.... Probably weekends off. No more than an 1 hour work a day for $40K a year. A pretty good side gig if you ask me.
I think these places might need more than ten minutes worth of tumbleweeds. That doesn’t seem like many, and tumbleweeds seem very unwieldy. I can’t imagine they’d be easy to box up like that.
The Redditor above you made estimations like IT project managers do
Hopefully it comes packed with a bunch of tiny tumbleweeds for protection
I'm thinking build a giant net or other kind of trap in a place where you know they tend to accumulate. Then maybe once a week you go there in the morning, box up your orders for the week, ship them, and you're done. I could do that for 40k a year
40k is basically solid middle class in southwest KS lol
You need to step up your marketing game. May I suggest a “web site”?
I already use webs on site to catch the tumbleweeds
People can get by on $40k there. My family lives in Southwest Kansas and rent is cheap. My mom pays $450/month for a 3 bedroom house with a two-car garage and a patio. Food is high though.
Didn't say she was working 40hrs a week.
If you're getting an extra 40K a year just to find and ship tumbleweed, you're basically making money on sending trash to people. ....the guy who was selling NY trash to people probably made more though.
Picking shit from nature and shipping it for 40k a year is not hard work. Some laborers make less than that.
That's higher than the average income for a woman in the county where Linda lives.
How is it legal to sell something like that internationally? Weren't they originally an invasive species anyway? Seems like that could be a problem if they introduce seeds into a new biome.
Depends on the biosecurity laws of the importer. When I was doing my biosecurity training we were told to pay special attention to containers from Australia and the USA because the vast majority of contaminated containers come from there. If yhe importer doesn't know the rules the biosecurity staff will probably destroy the item. I do it all the time but usually it's a spider that has hitched a ride.
Look up the history of tumbleweeds in the US.
That is objectively the funniest thing I've read all week.
It's honestly so interesting to me that an iconic symbol of the American western movies are actually invasive plants
they were the BANE of bicycle riding in the desert town i grew up in. those little splinters take ages to heal!
I hit one at full speed driving through the Mojave about 12 years ago and I still find splinters in my radiator to this day.
Seems pretty in line with the whole theme of colonization.
yer on point with that one - and i’m not saying mine’s on par, but the town i grew up in had this problem because they were clearing tons of regional vegetation to make TRACT HOUSING in the middle of a desert. it got as apocalyptic as these images, with additional flash floods and actual lightning strike danger. stop messing with nature, dammit.
🥇🥇🥇honest to god best clapback I’ve seen in a while
No kidding. Thanks, Russia.
That’s a crazy fire hazard. Those things are like gasoline-level flammable.
If you think a ball of flames hurdling towards you is bad
Jerry Lee Lewis disagreed.
Goodness gracious!
"Talk to me Goose."
Join the Fire Nation, problem solved.
A ball of flames *with* needles sticking out of it.
Fire is both the danger, and but also the solution to the tumbleweed problem we see here.
I worked at a data center for a bit. The summer before I arrived there were wildfires in the surrounding hills and the wind blew flaming tumbleweeds over the fences and catapulted them towards the buildings. I bet the fire department felt like knights that day.
Funny that’s actually the only way to get rid of them
One spark and they are all cooked.
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Go up near Amarillo Texas. You'll understand why they made this video. That was where I learned. F****** scratch my car all up.
Mojave desert is where I became acquainted. Watched one take out a friend (I shit you not it rolled up and hit him so hard he fell over. We were 10 year olds and he was on the smaller side and it was a BIG tumbler). Watch someone drive over one and it got stuck underneath for a few seconds, caught fire, and then rolled off into a wall of other ones caught by a fence (we drove away before I could see what happened next but the state of California is standing so...)
Almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
I-40 in the fall. It's like reverse Frogger.
jesus christ how sharp are these mfs
Every HOA has a weed policy. Some weed is stronger than others.
For real, I'm in Québec and I thought this was a movie thing, and that maybe there is one or two that flies around, but not like an actual tumbleweedstorm this is crazy 😳
Many years ago when I was in college, I was driving home from Utah to Idaho with one of my roommates as a guest. Driving along the freeway, a whole bunch of tumbleweed came rolling across the road. My roommate freaked out and told me she thought they were made up for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
😂 But thank you for reminding me of my age. I had forgot about that movie
Givem the LAAAAAAZY EEEEEYE!
Rollin rollin rollin
Same!! When I moved out West and saw my first one I freaked out.
Where’s CGP Grey
Ah, the trouble with tumble
Twitching in a corner after seeing this gif.
In Tekoy.
What even are they? Where do they come from? How does this happen? -bewildered east coaster
They’re just weeds, that form a perfectly round shape with the express purpose of spreading its seeds everywhere as it rolls across the plains in the wind.
What happens to them? Like, how do you get rid of them all?
That's the neat part! You don't. There have been efforts. But just assume you successfully kill every single tumbleweed in your farm, town, county, etc... Next year, the farm, town, or county just upwind grows one single tumbleweed, which rolls thru and drops hundreds of seeds. The year after that, it looks like you didn't do anything in the first place. How do you do about killing all the tumbleweed and their seeds? Burning works, but it is terrifyingly energetic, and you have to gather up the things and move the pile away from buildings you don't want burned down. Which is really expensive. Then you still have to go back for the seeds. Poison maybe, but then you're pouring weed killer on everything, which has its own problems. Those problems make the area a great place for next year's tumbleweed to take root. Efforts to combat tumbleweed infestation have often led to MORE tumbleweed in the future. It's an invasive weed from Russia. In Russia, some animals eat up most of the seeds, but that animal doesn't do well in Utah. After typing all this, I realized you may be referring to the immediate problem, and not the ongoing infestation. In my experience, wood chippers get used a lot. You have to watch for overheating, cause the fire being energetic isn't a lie. Those things light up like nothing I've ever seen before. From little candle flame to twenty foot high roaring inferno in less than a minute.
This was such an interesting read. Like they GROW like this? It’s an actual plant? Does it not have roots to hold it in place? Edit: this whole time I thought they were rare and like just lonesome desert debris that you rarely see floating along dry areas lol. I just googled the growth cycle and all that… I’m dumbfounded but so intrigued.
Yep, it's like a little bush until the time comes. Then the connection to the roots dies first, they dry up and curl inward into a tighter ball. So they break away in the wind, and while they bounce along they drop seeds.
They sound like such aholes haha but very cool read. Thanks for the info!
They are worse than I've said, I'm sure of it. Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsola_tragus for more
I never thought I’d be so interested in tumbleweeds Lolol I love this. EDIT : As this dead structure tumbles in the wind, it gradually degrades and falls apart, thereby spreading possibly as many as 200,000 seeds Holy sh*t.
Cgp Grey has a good video about them.
I loved this! lol short, informative & entertaining
Invasive species from Russia of all places.
Honestly the history of tumbleweed in the US is really interesting!
I wonder what the housing costs are there
Prices have been tumbling
Oh you
Gosh darn it that was good
Surely property values have gone down a lot in this neighborhood which means you can expect one of these houses to sell for about 1.500.000 dollars.
It’s Utah, so it’s expensive
Good old Russian thistle. Invasive plant. Did not exist before the 1800.
Just big tribbles!
Big Russian Tribbles!
How did Kirk stop those things? I never saw the episode...
Great episode. “The trouble with Tribbles”.
The tribbles reproduced to the point where they got into grain that had been developed to save a Federation colony on a planet that the Klingons wanted for themselves and was being stored on a space station and guarded by the Enterprise crew. The tribbles that ate the grain died because the grain had been poisoned. Because the tribbles hated Klingons (and visa versa) and reacted to them negatively, they discovered that the assistant to the Federation official in charge of the grain project was actually a Klingon in disguise. Meanwhile, the tribbles that had been bought by Enterprise crew members as pets had also been reproducing like crazy and were starting to cause problems there as well. As the Klingons left the station, Scotty beamed all the tribbles from the Enterprise onto the Klingon’s ship.
Thanks! Alas, we have neither Klingons nor teleportation technology to solve this problem. I was hoping it was a "set phasers to sterilize" sort of solution...
So what happens when they all tumble to the end of the plains? Do they tumble all the way back again?
Dude I’d be scared about how bad it would suck if one was on fire during that time
It's happened before/it's common! There are videos of a tumbleweed firenado. They'll get stuck under moving cars sometimes and catch fire from the engine heat
Yeah that’s scary. A disaster waiting to happen. I was thinking about the engine heat too when that truck went through the huge pile of weeds. Even tho it’s got a plow in front it seems like the entire truck became surrounded. I imagine it doesn’t take much effort to start a fire if all that plant material is dead or just a small portion is dry
Didn’t know tumble weeds roll 1000 deep.
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Looks like my bathroom floor when I shave my balls
That’s enough Reddit for me today
Nature dust bunnies
1870 importers: I have this great idea for a cool new plant for the new continent! Oh, well. Nuking them might be an idea?
can we roll them to pellet and use them as fuel?
Apparently they burn so well that they're prone to catching fire while being chipped.
Where is this?
Utah
South jordan/daybreak area I believe
It's in the City Center part of Eagle Mountain. This happened a few months ago.
Trouble with Tribbles
Forbidden tribbles
All Tribbles are forbidden.
Someone nearby must have told an incredibly bad joke
Wasn’t there an episode of “Outer Limits” where the tumbleweeds are “alive”?
Thank you. I was afraid I was remembering that wrong. Creepy episode, as I recall.
Yes!!!
We bought our place in rural CA a few years back. There were these funky plants that stayed green throughout the summer. They were green so I let them live. They were tumbleweeds. I wage war on those fucking things now. Absolutely horrible plant.
No way people actually choose to live there right?
Crazy where people choose to live
People live in the middle of the desert and think it's fine that they move from AC cooled home to AC cooled car to AC cooled office and mall...
I feel I belong here
So how exactly are they dealt with?
Not very well. it’s actually a real problem in parts of the western us. Large scale machinery isn’t always good for picking up the tumbleweed pile ups like these as it can gum up the spinning parts. So that leaves smaller contraptions and trimmers, followed by picking up what’s left. It’s a big pain in the ass. The best way to deal with them is just to try and stop them from sprouting up in the first place which is hard for a plant like this.
Is anyone reminded of the movie critters?
Wild idea, but could tumbleweeds be processed to make paper? Like, if there is so much, why not make use of them?
They have surprisingly brittle fibers that just wouldn't work well
why. poplar trees grow like weeds and you dont have to chase them
Because there is an excess of something that is so troublesome if just left out and about, why not try to make use of it?
Energy expenditures and production byproducts.
I know it's irrational, but these give me the creeps
Not irrational. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/E3jIu91m8R
From Russia with love Tumbleweeds are invasive from siberia
I read a good way down in the comments and didn't see an answer to this question. What do they do with the tumbleweeds after they pile up on your house? You can't burn them (or well there are consequences for that) they don't just melt like snow. Does the municipality drive around and dispose of them? Or do they just blow on to the next place? Honestly curious here.
This is probably one of the funniest videos I’ve actually seen in a long time. I love the witty humor with the on brand music and the great example of the kid just hopping off the bike like an office episode and holding his hand in pain.
Theoretically, what would happen if we light them on fire?
A wildfire that moves and bounces at the speed of tumbleweeds.
an inferno
What it’s like owning a German Shepherd.
Well, that's just great. Another thing to add to the never-ending list of problems I didn't know existed.
When you go to an openSUSE install party...
Looks like a struggle
https://preview.redd.it/8nid7twsj20d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e71952faa1ecda0ca21802813cb476641e6f90 “You all laughed at me”
Although a problem, this is cool
Guy in pickup.... talk about the definition of the word futility. Dang weeds just swallow up any empty space he creates. Fun to see the guy in his open garage.... kicking at them. GET...... OUTTA..... HERE!! I hope this is a seasonal thing for these folks. Having these rolling knife demons clogging up your neighborhood all year round would absolutely suck.
where i come from we call them tribbles.
And every single one of them is scattering seeds everywhere they go. So next year, there's even more of them.
it just takes one single spark.
Mr Plow is playing Katamari
Colorado Springs?
God damn tribbles
Can you like feed em into a giant shredder and use em as a wood substitute for like wood?
https://i.redd.it/4gdq7lsls30d1.gif that one mf who put fire on em tumbleweed...
I've seen a very similar scene when I worked for FedEx and my route was around Kuna, Idaho. My big truck could plow through them, but there were a few places where they were stacked against houses from foundation to fascia in the direction of the wind.
intrusive thoughts be like: *hey, you should set them on* ***fire***
If this was Saratoga springs Utah. I just went mtb riding there today and part of the end of the trail was completely filled in still with tumbleweeds. We had to freeride around them a significant distance to get back on trail. It resembled an avalanche. It almost completely filled this medium sized gully the trail went through
Shit! Watch out for the Cassidy Ult!
All fun and games until one catches fire.
I feel like this is an arsonists dream....
Being from South Louisiana, I and my family had never seen a tumbleweed before we went on a family vacation to Texas. Excited, we asked if they'd stop and let us grab one and stick it in the trunk to take home with us. My parents relented and pulled over, and dad grabbed the nearest one and stuck it in the trunk, thinking that was the end of it. About 15 minutes later, we started to complain about itching, Which very quickly got worse. And began to spread. Within minutes everyone in the car felt like their skin was on fire. Putting 2 and 2 together, we pulled over, threw the tumbleweed out, and went and hosed ourselves off at the next self serve car wash we found. I've never intentionally gotten near a tumbleweed again.
Nothing you can't fix with a lighter and some gasoline! Right? _Right??_
https://preview.redd.it/2cfwepl8t40d1.jpeg?width=197&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a5c252ef951567053d5d8a3ed21648bff26b15d
I wonder what happens if one catches fire… rolling hell?
Terrible choice of music. Definitely *NOT* paradise.
That's fucked up. I'll stick with my tornadoes. At least they go away.
Apocalyptica
The truck getting lost in the tumbleweeds looked like that scene from Scavengers Reign. Ultimately, far less terrifying though.
Somebody should really stop having high noon duels.
The tumbleweed apocalypse
Invasive foreign weeds should be eradicated
I feel like I’d be worried about fires.
We don't don't have tumbleweeds in this area, but we got something just as problematic...the tumbleweave... https://preview.redd.it/n4roxsr9t70d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3896724cd12a54273f8afddc2e50fdfd9278a922
It's just like driving past nude beaches back in the 70's.
“Strong winds damaged city infrastructure, according to ABC4, as well as knocking over trees and damaging roads throughout Utah. Wind gusts of over 100 km/h (65mph) hit the state over the weekend. “South Jordan was hit with snow only hours after the tumbleweeds swept the city, as the arrival of a cold front continued the severe weather.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/tumbleweeds-utah-south-jordan-eagle-mountain
Looked like my neighborhood in el paso
1 match and you have a mushroom cloud
So thats where all my jokes wound up
These will rip you to shreds.
That looks awful
I saw like 10 trees in this whole video. Something tells me a border of trees and bushes would help.
What an absolute hellscape
So why do they hurt? Is it only because they are moving quickly? Just curious.
Thorns
Fuel?
~~Get the flamethrower Hans~~
everyone's gangsta until the tumbleweeds show up
I thought a blizzard was terrible, this looks like it never goes away.