I always imagined tumbleweeds to be harmless and picturesque, but these California residents know otherwise.
In high desert areas of California like Victorville, thousands of tumbleweeds blew in on a particularly windy day yesterday, covering resident's lawns and backyards entirely.
The high winds were associated with a storm system swinging out of the Southwest, bringing hot, dry air and dangerous fire conditions to several states.
One neighbor was even trapped in her home for two hours.
The tumbleweeds were so bad that crews with the city's code enforcement division went out to help get rid of them, collecting tumbleweeds by the truck load and taking them out.
ABC7 anchor Leticia Juarez said of the weeds, "Once you handle these things, you really realize you don't want to, they hurt, there's lots of thorny, pokey things all over them."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I guess tumbleweeds aren't what they make them out to be in Looney Tunes after all. My childhood is forever changed.
