Trapped Cars Faced New Holiday Travel Menace: #tumblegeddon
Tumbleweeds are common in the desert plateau of eastern Washington state. But a 12-foot high stack of them trapped cars for hours.
An enormous number of tumbleweeds blew onto a road in eastern Washington state on New Year's Eve, piling up into a mountain of tangled branches that blocked traffic and even buried some cars, trapping travelers inside.
"In the 20. "I've never seen six to eight cars, including a semi-truck, actually stopped and trapped on a highway because of tumbleweeds."
