Colorado
Too much weed! Colorado couple gets trapped in home by tumbleweeds
It’s western film meets horror movie.
A Colorado couple acquired trapped of their rural home over the weekend when a large flood of tumbleweeds blew in and surrounded it on all sides — blocking all exits, she reportedly mentioned.
Marlies Gross, of Fountain, mentioned robust winds despatched the 5-foot-deep inflow of untamed western weeds rolling onto her property Sunday, in line with the native station KRDO.
“I believed it was a foul dream,” she mentioned. “I opened the entrance door and it’s [all] tumbleweeds. It was stuffed with tumbleweeds.”
She and her husband known as neighbors for assist clearing a path by means of the crops, which buried their automobile and blocked their driveway, the station reported.
“You needed to struggle your self by means of the tumbleweeds, which have been above the automotive,” she mentioned.
They now plan to contact the county of El Paso for assist eradicating the remainder of them.
“It’s horrible,” she mentioned. “You’re feeling helpless.”
Different western Colorado {couples} reported an inflow of tumbleweeds over the weekend, with one Colorado Springs man telling the CBS affiliate KKTV they engulfed his truck.
“I simply type of muscled by means of it,” Ian Barnes informed the station.