Don't You Hate When This Happens.

[bigwheelzip]

Drivers on a remote stretch of Washington state highway 240, next to the Department of Energy's infamously radioactive Hanford Site, were attacked by Tumbleweeds. Must be a movie script in this somewhere.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THvVeKb1ymU[/ame]

 

[rubiranch]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcGhu3pZxSs[/ame]

This is nothing like what you posted but I recorded these tumbleweeds
tumbling back in April 2015.

 

[RichardWA]

Here is the local news story. That area is also closed a lot due to drifting snow.
SR 240 back open after tumbleweeds shut down highway for 10 hours outside West Richland - YakTriNews.com

 

[Kurusu]

Drivers on a remote stretch of Washington state highway 240, next to the Department of Energy's infamously radioactive Hanford Site, were attacked by Tumbleweeds. Must be a movie script in this somewhere.

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That sure beats "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"

 

[bigwheelzip]

That sure beats "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"

I was thinking something more like the wonderful classic movie "Night of the Lepus", with 12GA shotguns being used to shatter the evil weeds.

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[Kurusu]

I was thinking something more like the wonderful classic movie "Night of the Lepus", with 12GA shotguns being used to shatter the evil weeds.

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Weeds? Isn't that with rabbits?

Note. I never watched that movie, just googled it.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

I've pheasant hunted in 10 foot high tumble weed patches, the birds
like to get under them if it snows. It was not pleasant trying to flush
the pheasants from under those weeds.

 

[Marshwheeling]

One time outside of Pueblo, CO, I rode a trail bike into a dry wash full of tumbleweeds. I had the devil of a time getting out. It took three of us to get the bike out.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Weeds? Isn't that with rabbits?

Note. I never watched that movie, just googled it.

Oh my, that's a gory "B" movie favorite of mine. I just want to see them try and stop the mutant killer radioactive Tumbleweeds with shotguns the way the Lepus movie did the rabbits.

I used to work out there where that Washington Tumbleweed attack happened, and if you drove into a Tumbleweed it shattered into a cloud of little pieces. They burn really well also, and move about the landscape rapidly, often attaching themselves to each other until they become quite large. Where's the next Hitchcock when you need him?

Edit: This picture of Hubby's Toyota was taken on the Horse Heaven Hills just above the stretch Washington roadway that got inundated. I think the bushes in front of the side doors are Tumbleweeds before they break off and start tumbling.

 

[steveno]

I had a job interview there in the late 1970's at Hanford (Westinghouse). I'm kind of glad I didn't get the job

 

[bigwheelzip]

One time outside of Pueblo, CO, I rode a trail bike into a dry wash full of tumbleweeds. I had the devil of a time getting out. It took three of us to get the bike out.

That would be an interesting video to see.

 

[bigwheelzip]

I had a job interview there in the late 1970's at Hanford (Westinghouse). I'm kind of glad I didn't get the job

We absolutely loved that high desert area. Our place overlooked the Columbia river, with the Rockies visible to the east and the Cascades visible to the west.
Westinghouse there was a good outfit, but the site may never have a good handle on Manhattan Project waste.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Rule3]

 

[oldbrownhat]

That sure beats "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"

LOL. Although you can at least eat tomatoes (if they don't get you first).

I was thinking of a slightly demonic re-write of "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds"- but from the tumbleweeds POV
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY64jePy9Ug"]Slim Whitman, Tumbleweeds[/ame]

Alternately, for Star Trek fans, some replacement CGI could make this turn nasty:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4wM5KvUGEc"] The Trouble with Tribbles[/ame]


And surely there must be an old episode of The Outer Limits where a town was taken over by tumbleweeds?

 

[Rule3]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiSMyyj-Ac[/ame]

 

[oldbrownhat]

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I see we're on the same train of thought here...

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

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

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[bigwheelzip]

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

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Interesting. Didn't know that.
Could we trade them Kudzoo for it?

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[oldbrownhat]

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

Have a blessed day,

Leon

I didn't know that, either. According to Smithsonian Magazine, though, they are from pre-revolutionary Russia, so no threat to national security And rather than "invaders" it seems we inadventently invited them in! What were we thinking?

...Today, tumbleweeds are a quintessential part of the American West, appearing in Western movies, songs and traditions. But the tumbleweed, like many of the people who live out West, are not descendants of true U.S. natives. They arrived as invaders from Russia around 1870 and have been impossible to get rid of since.

The weeds first arrived in Scotland, South Dakota, likely in seed form in a batch of flaxseed imported from Russia, Zocalo reports. Just 15 years later, the tumbleweed (also called the Russian thistle) had rolled its way to both Canada and California. Since then, stories abound of "tumbleweeds driving ranchers out of their homes through sheer abundance," Zocalo writes....