Tumblegeddon in Eastern Washington

Trapped Cars Faced New Holiday Travel Menace: #tumblegeddon

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NPR: An enormous number of tumbleweeds blew onto a road in eastern Washington state on New Year's Eve, piling up into a mountain of tangled branches that blocked traffic and even buried some cars, trapping travelers inside. "In the 20 years that I have worked here, I have never seen it as bad as this," says Washington State Patrol trooper Chris Thorson. "I've never seen six to eight cars, including a semi-truck, actually stopped and trapped on a highway because of tumbleweeds."

I saw an episode of Outer Limits where a lot of things were alive including tumbleweeds.

Another interesting bit of trivia, around the Hanford nuclear site in eastern WA, they have found radioactive tumbleweeds.

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