Tumbleweeds On The Attack: Utah Neighborhood Buried

Tumbleweeds littered this Utah neighborhood. 
Photo from KUTV 

 Here's a forecast you'll probably never see here in Vermont:

"Tumbleweeds, heavy at times, mixing with and changing to snow."  

Actually that forecast happened nowhere, but that precise weather event hit the lucky town of South Jordan, Utah. Or at least one neighborhood in that community. 

High winds - part of the storm that socked California's Sierra Nevada mountains with that well-publicized blizzard this weekend - caused damage and snow in Utah too.

Before the snow arrived, the strong winds blew the tumbleweeds into the Daybreak neighborhood of South Jordan. 

At least one car was buried and at least a couple homes had tumbleweeds stacked up reaching the second floor. 

The city came in with dumpsters and a backhoe to clear the tumbleweeds. Which just kept coming as they did that. At least until it started snowing. 

It was probably harder to remove the tumbleweeds once they got covered with snow, but at least the colder weather stopped additional ones from blowing in.  You gotta look on the bright side whenever you can, right?

News reports indicate another Utah town, Eagle Mountain, also experienced tumblegeddon over the weekend. 

The storm that created the tumbleweed attack was pretty intense in Utah.  The roof of a Salt Lake City church blew off.  The Snowbird and Alta ski resorts in Utah were forced to close early Saturday due to high winds and lightning. 

This isn't the first recent tumbleweed attack in the U.S. A neighborhood in Bakersfield, California endured piles of them from a February storm. 

Tumbleweeds are an aggressive invasive species in the West and frequent cause problems when they pile up in wind storms. 

Here's a news clip which includes the tumbleweeds as people tried to remove them even as snow complicated the effort. Click on this link to view, or if you see the image below click on that.