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Bozeman residents haul out snow plows to deal with tumbleweed
Cindy Bowker, who lives in the Montana town, awakened to find tumbleweed smothering her back deck and windows. She had to tunnel through the weeds from her front door to the two-car garage and driveway. "Both garages were covered. We got the real dense stuff out and just drove through it. It was up over the headlights. It was all the way up the steps and covered our front door." (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
March 28, 2007 | Permalink
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Attack! Attack of the Tumbleweeds!!!! I see an MST3K reunion over this gem of a story :D
Posted by: V | Mar 28, 2007 6:02:44 AM
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 28, 2007 6:06:34 AM
What's with these online stories that can't put up even one lame picture? I could joke "Doesn't anyone have a camera in Montana?" but I see it with a lot of stories.
It's all well and good to say that tumbleweeds made someone "tunnel through the weeds from her front door to the two-car garage and driveway" but I can't picture it.
Posted by: acp | Mar 28, 2007 6:07:12 AM
Isn't that actually kind of dangerous, tunneling through tumbleweeds? Or is that just desert tumbleweeds?
I thought all sorts of creepy-crawlies lived in them.
/great.
//completely freaked myself out and have the itchies now.
///I love me.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 28, 2007 6:09:42 AM
There was a very old 'Outer Limits' episode that had attacking tumbleweeds.
"Cry of Silence"
It was pretty creepy.
Posted by: | Mar 28, 2007 6:30:26 AM
That 'Outer Limits' episode doesn't surprise me. The first thing that came to mind for me was "Wonder what Stephen King could do with this?" It reminded me of his story 'The Mist' or the title was something close to that anyway.
Posted by: DT | Mar 28, 2007 6:44:22 AM
Already been done.
Day Of The Triffids, 1962. I would suspect that the cheap rip-off artists at The Outer Limits used the general idea of this story.
The Twilight Zone always had much better stories.
Posted by: KDP | Mar 28, 2007 7:08:09 AM
'Day of the Triffids' was a much different plot than the Outer Limits episode. Having seen both, I know the OUter Limits people didn't rip off Security Pictures, ltd.
Posted by: | Mar 28, 2007 7:19:19 AM
Thanks, Soo...now I can't stop scratching.
Reminds me of a story I read as a very small child about a tumbleweed...how it travelled the country and what it saw. It ended up in the ocean and floating into oblivion. I always hated that ending.
I agree with acp. This story definitely needed pics.
Posted by: pnwgal | Mar 28, 2007 8:27:10 AM
Can't you envision the poor householders with machettis and bandanas wrapped around their foreheads bravely cutting a swath through the wicked pileups of tumbleweed in their front lawn in a courageous effort to get to their cars and make it to work on time?
It almost sounds like a great musical :D
Posted by: V | Mar 28, 2007 8:29:29 AM
more proof that i have been living in a a city way too long,
Posted by: tdawg n.b. ct | Mar 28, 2007 8:30:26 AM
This site has a picture: http://cbs5.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_087055209.html
But I'm pretty sure it's just a stock photo. (Do they have stock photos of tumbleweeds?)
Posted by: Erin | Mar 28, 2007 9:46:37 AM
I hope that's a stock photo; otherwise they have a much different idea of what constitutes a lot of tumbleweed than I do.
Posted by: | Mar 28, 2007 11:15:35 AM
I agree with acp. "Tumbleweed smothering her back deck and windows". We have tumbleweed here in Nevada and I have never seen one smother anything. Maybe get run over by a truck, but that's about it.
But thanks for the Limits comment. I remember that episode; it had the guy from Green Acres in it. I seem to recall frogs were also part of the plot, but it was so long ago...
Posted by: Charles | Mar 28, 2007 11:59:35 AM
plown' along with the tumbilin' tumbleweed.......
Posted by: s.b. | Mar 28, 2007 12:06:22 PM
sorry, can type... i meant plowin'
Posted by: s.b. | Mar 28, 2007 12:07:40 PM
damn it i did it again, d'oh
Posted by: | Mar 28, 2007 12:08:49 PM
dt, you are right. it was The Mist. i'm a big Stephen King fan. have read nearly everything he's written. interesting correlation between The Mist and The Tumbleweeds. very good
Posted by: lower-casebecky | Mar 28, 2007 12:11:11 PM
just opened my blinds. i'm being attacked by pine cones! when they hit the roof, it sounds like we are being bombed! no snow plow, tho. this is going to take a bulldozer!!
Posted by: lower-casebecky | Mar 28, 2007 12:16:02 PM
is tumblewwed flamable gasoline and a match could splve a lot of problems
Posted by: tdawg n.b. ct | Mar 28, 2007 12:22:53 PM
yeh, but not if it's windy. whole new problem. "community burns down own homes in attempt to dispose of tumbleweeds!"
Posted by: lower-casebecky | Mar 28, 2007 12:51:57 PM
There's an entire gallery of pictures:
http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?process=gallery&gallery_id=13871&provider_id=211
Posted by: Grebby | Mar 28, 2007 2:10:53 PM
Grebby, I checked your link, and I've made a decision.
Used to be that if anyone gave me non-chocolate food as a gift, they were on my ugly list.
Now that I've seen that link, I'm a changed person. From now on, if someone sends me a framed photo of some poor sap's house snowed in by tumbleweeds, I'm returning it laced with explosives.
"see it framed"..."buy it now"... WTF?!
Posted by: Soo | Mar 28, 2007 2:34:45 PM
Thanks Grebby! I did my own quick search but didn't find it, not that I consider myself great at it. If there was an obvious link from the story, then I'm an admitted dope.
Posted by: acp | Mar 29, 2007 10:21:14 AM
