http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-22/tumbleweed-plague-stops-residents-entering-home/9575318
It's 2016 all over again. Honestly this is the only time of year that Wangaratta gets in the news, the tumbleweeds are more interesting than anything else that happens there.
It's... actually quite terrifying how thick it gets. Isn't it a massive fire hazard too?
Looks like just having stacks of hay around your house, geez. Seems like a spark could set it off.
It begins.
This might just be my California acting up but I'm getting extremely anxious looking at that woman wading chest-deep through piles of tinder
Victoria is also incredibly bushfire-prone
Oh shit this is Straya, i could have sworn it was America last time i read about it. Now i understand the fire concern even more.
Seeing that much tumbleweed like that fills me with anxiety...
Why the fuck does Victoria have a Warangatta and Wangaratta, the whole fucking article was just double takes as to whether what I was hearing in my head was actually what was written.
To mess with you.
I did a burn-off for my mum last year and one of the piles of plant matter was basically like tumbleweed. Just loads of very thin, very dry, loosely packed dried woody weed. When I set it on fire I was actually worried I (or someone else) would have to call the country fire service. The flames were a good ten or fifteen metres high from a pile less than a metre high and maybe two on each side. Thankfully it only burned for about couple of minutes before reducing to embers.
There is no Warangatta it's just a common misspelling of Wangaratta, usually by Queenslanders who are thinking of Coolangatta.
good to hear that Australia confuses even Australians sometimes
one of the most ominous thread titles i've ever read
glad we don't really get tumbleweeds here in britain, they sound like a pain in the ass
Who knew a plant that grows in the extreme north of Russia could not only survive but thrive in the goddamn desert
Tumbleweeds turning my home into a tinder box seems like a horrifying prospect, especially for someone who gets Firestorm Watches regularly in their weather alerts.
*tumbles behind you and ignites*
God, tumbleweeds are a plague everywhere they have spread to it seems
Tumbleweeds not only burn very easily, but the stalks also burn for quite some time, and in general they put off a surprising amount of heat for such a scraggly plant.
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