Oddbean new post about login | logout Driving across Wyoming in a wind tumbleweed storm as my sleeping wife utters " What's a tumbleweed"? as she looks up at a 6' one coming right at us. She ducked for cover as a laughed loudly.
@4f50b305 CBS Sunday Morning ran a segment about the lady who sells tumbleweed lights. https://www.sandandsuede.com/store/p69/The_Tumbleweed_Chandelier.html NOT cheap.... Though apparently she got so many orders she is only doing custom sales now.
@4f50b305 Last Thansgiving we camped in NM,weather was supposed to be sunny&in 40s but plan was cut short as storm shifted South and we,towing camper, rushed in the middle of the night to beat the storm winds going home to TX from Socorro.To beat worst winds we were traveling S on W side of mountains to Alamagordo in early morning.She never saw tumbleweeds too.Well, we had some tumbleweed storm all along and she was ducking all the time too ;) Reached TX just in time, sky was black behind