Colorado Couple Gets Trapped in Their Home by Mass of Tumbleweeds: 'I Thought It Was a Bad Dream'

“I opened the front door and it’s whole tumbleweeds,” she recalled. “We couldn’t even get out of here.”

“You kind of almost, you know, you feel helpless,” she added. “I thought it was a bad dream.”

Ultimately, she said that neighbors helped clear a path for her and her husband — and even that was a struggle.

“You had to fight yourself through the tumbleweeds, which were above the car,” she told KRDO.

Gross added that they still don’t know how they’re going to get rid of all them, but are in contact with their insurance provider as well as El Paso County.

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The couple weren’t the only Southern Colorado residents who had to deal with a massive influx of tumbleweeds.

“I looked out my backyard, it didn’t seem so bad and then I went out the front yard and it was pretty crazy,” Ian Barnes told the outlet.

“El Paso County Department of Public Works have had crews out [Sunday] and [Monday] removing tumbleweeds from El Paso County rights-of-way,” Deputy Director of Communications with El Paso County Communications Natalie Sosa told the outlet.

Sosa went on to say that while tumbleweeds are “widespread and beyond control,” as they are not on Colorado’sNoxious Weed list, it’s up to individuals to limit their growth.

The official told the outlet that the agency does not remove tumbleweeds from private property, and that property owners can dispose of them at local landfills.

source: people.com