Salt Lake City menaced by giant gang of tumbleweeds

Salt Lake City menaced by giant gang of tumbleweeds

In 2014, mini-storms of tumbleweeds swamped the drought-stricken prairie of southern Colorado, blocking rural roads and irrigation canals, and briefly barricading homes and an elementary school. Parts of Victorville, California, nearly were buried in 2018 by the large balls of the dried weeds.