Don't You Hate When This Happens.

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I had a nearly new car and was traveling to Hobbs NM. Between Lubbock and Hobbs I encountered very high winds. You could dodge most of the tumbleweeds but the sand-blasting did a number on the car.

A neighbor was driving across the Texas Panhandle in his new Lincoln SUV when he was caught in a tumbleweed blizzard. He had to have it completely repainted. Fortunately his insurance paid for it. I guess he had a tumbleweed damage rider on his insurance.

 

[ACORN]

Did you know that tumbleweeds are an invasive plant from........ you guessed it. Russia

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Ahh Haa! Russian collusion

 

[steelslaver]

Hey tumbleweeds stopped a TRAIN by Hardin, in eastern Montana. Went from 15 MPH to 0 in nothing flat. Got enough of them under driver wheels that it "spun out" Finally had to back up, hooked up FIVE extra engines, and take a run at it

Tumbleweeds stop BNSF train

My favorite tumble weed story is

One nice warm spring day after paddle fishing on the Yellowstone river 2 of my friends and I were driving back to Miles City on the frontage roads. Fred had been drinking, so I was driving his Thunderbird and he was sleeping in the back seat. Mel, who was a hotshot sprint car driver had dozed off in the passenger seat. I was running about 80 and a huge tumble weed is going to cross the road in front of me. So, I screamed and slam on the brakes and Mel woke up just as I hit it and it exploded harmlessly all over the front end. *****. Mel near had a heart attack. Fred just laughed when he figured it out.

 

[Rule3]

Also found this:

YouTube

"THE WEEDS HAVE NEEDS"

 

[Kurusu]

YouTube

Well, that's not "Green Acres" for sure.

 

[Fishslayer]

A few years ago Nieman Marcus painted some Tumbleweeds silver and sold them in their Christmas Catalog for nearly a thousand bucks each - Texas Christmas Trees. I'm sure some dufuss ordered one.

This gal started in the early days as a joke.

 

[bigwheelzip]

This gal started in the early days as a joke.

That's great.
Iggy could of made millions from all the weeds he pitched over the fence, if he'd had internet back then.


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[TX-Dennis]

Also found this:

YouTube

Hey, I've been to Bovina. Not many of you can say that.

 

[Sistema1927]

They grow pretty large here:
AMAFCA Tumbleweed Snowman | AMAFCA

This past Thanksgiving, my sister and brother-in-law drove down from Kansas. They had a large tumbleweed slam into their car, and destroyed the cover on one of the side mirrors.