Colorado couple trapped in their home by tumbleweeds

By Annabelle Childers | KRDO by way of CNN

FOUNTAIN, Colorado (KRDO) — Robust winds Saturday night time and into Sunday morning in Southern Colorado downed energy traces and tree limbs. However for one couple residing in Fountain, the wind introduced out so many tumbleweeds, they’ll’t even get out of their very own driveway.

“We couldn’t even get out of right here, this was all full,” Marlies Gross stated, pointing on the tower of tumble lurking at her entrance door.

“I seemed out of my lavatory window and a tumbleweed stored on leaping up on the window!”

This isn’t personification, Gross quickly realized her residence was really enclosed by tumbleweeds.

“Horrible! Have a look at that from the deck!” she says, noticing all of her exits are blocked. “I opened the entrance door and it’s entire tumbleweeds. It was filled with tumbleweeds.”

Gross says she tried to depart her driveway, however she couldn’t see the street in entrance of her.

“I nearly bumped into the neighbor’s fence as a result of I didn’t know the place I used to be,” she stated.

Her neighbors spent hours Sunday morning, serving to clear the street for Gross and her husband.

“You needed to struggle your self by the tumbleweeds, which had been above the automobile. You needed to push your self into it.”

However even after the assistance, the sight from her again porch is a sea of tumble.

“You type of nearly, , you are feeling helpless,” she stated, “I assumed it was a nasty dream.”

It’s not a dream although, it’s her actuality. It’s a actuality with unknown subsequent steps and a complete lot of tumbleweeds. Gross says she and her husband are engaged on contacting their insurance coverage supplier and in addition El Paso County to get assist clearing them out.

However, now they’re simply hoping the wind doesn’t blow much more tumbleweeds into this space, making the scenario even worse.

“We nonetheless can’t stroll wherever. I don’t understand how what we’re going to do, how we eliminate these tumbleweeds. Oh, it’s horrible.”