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A Washington man is hard at work clearing a mountain of tumbleweeds that blew onto his property and almost completely covered his home.
Dick Wilde of Kennewick toldFox Newsthat the weeds — which created a thicket about 15 feet high around his house, which he shares with his wife and grandkids — “blew into my yard on Sunday night from the wheat farms.”
“The wind was strong enough to pick them up and blow them right into my yard. The stack reaches right to the top of the house,” the retired nuclear engineer, 73, told the outlet.
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Snowplow removing tumbleweed near Richland, Washington, on Dec. 31, 2019.Chris Thorson/AP/Shutterstock
Fox News reports that winds reached 60 miles per hour over the weekend and that the combination of said winds and dry conditions led to the incident at Wilde’s home, which is located upwind.
“It is a fire hazard and they could go up in flames like a piece of paper. I need to have them cleared as soon as I can,” Wilde toldFox News, sharing that his city’s issue with tumbleweeds is the worst he has seen in over two decades.
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“They keep compacting and get really heavy and thick and they’re hard to move and you can’t just touch them with your bare hands,” Thorson explained to PEOPLE, adding that tumbleweeds are “very prickly and sharp” and require wearing gloves to move them.
source: people.com
