We came across this unbelieveable scene one day as we were out for a drive in the Mojave Desert.
Category Archives: Tumbleweeds
YouTube: New Mexico Tumbleweed
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
YouTube: Attack of The Tumbleweeds
Driving through New Mexico, we encountered a few rolling obstacles.
YouTube: Rolling in the cash – the tumbleweed tycoon
All Linda Katz had to do was step outside of her house to make thousands on the Internet. Now the Midwestern entrepreneur is building a business selling a piece of the old west online: tumbleweeds. Produced by Jamie Rubin. Shot and edited by Didrik Johnck.
YouTube: Homeowners want Bakersfield to help stem tumbleweed invasions
WebSite: Final Score: Tumbleweeds 1, BNSF Coal Train 0
WebSite: Final Score: Tumbleweeds 1, BNSF Coal Train 0
http://arizonarails.com/tumbleweed.html
Story of a BNSF coal train in North Dakota. I got this from a friend.
Story goes like this.
On Monday morning, if someone had told me that tumbleweeds could stop a coal train, I would have said ” yeah, right, no way.” That was until yesterday morning, 12 miles west of Hardin, MT We were pulling up Rowley Hill, going 15 mph & the wind was blowing about 50 mph & we ran into thousands of tumbleweeds. We came to a dead stop in about 5 car lengths, they blew under our drivers & we lost all our traction & were dead in the water. We had 3 Engines & got 2 more engines off another train & still couldn’t move. We were stuck there for 5hrs 35 min. & finally had to back down the hill & let another crew take over because we ran out of time to work.
Here are the picutres.
YouTube: Weed of the Week #616-Russian Thistle (From Ag PhD #616 1/24/10)
Don’t blame the Russians for this weed. It’s out Weed of the Week, Russian Thistle
YouTube: Weed of the Week #691-Russian Thistle (Air Date 7/3/11)
It’s our Weed of the Week, Russian Thistle.
YouTube: Bayer MSMS | What is a tumbleweed?
www.bayerus.com/msms — Did you ever wonder what tumbleweeds are? Let’s make sense of it with science!
To learn what tumbleweeds are, let’s head out to where the tumbleweed’s really roll.
Here we are in an old Colorado ghost town.
It’s spring here, and if you look around, you’ll see some leafy, round bushes growing out of the dust and dirt. Let’s take a closer look.
See this bush, here? It’s an annual. Which means its entire lifespan is one year. This particular annual goes by the name of “Russian Thistle”. But in these parts, folks just call it …
… Tumbleweed.
In the spring and summer, tumbleweeds grow like, well, weeds out here. They have a long root called a tap root, that anchors them to the ground.
And their green leaves gather as much water as the arid climate can allow.
Then fall comes. And a tumbleweed’s life is almost over.
Its leaves and stems whither.
Its branches curl upward, giving it that dry, rounded shape that western films have come to know and love.
And the tap root that has kept the tumbleweed anchored all spring and summer dries up.
So with the first gust of wind …
… The tumbleweed breaks from the tap root.
And tumbles its way through town, scattering its seeds in the progress. So its life cycle can keep rolling right along.
And that’s why …
It all makes sense with science.
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