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Does anyone live near a place with some real, live, tumbleweeds?

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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 09:05 AM
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Does anyone live near a place with some real, live, tumbleweeds?

We have this interoffice joke of tumbleweeds blowing around when things get slow at work. I actually looked online to see if there was a place where I could get a few. I got to thinknig, does anyone actually go sit outside on their porch and tumbleweeds blow by? Living in southern Louisiana, there sure aren't any dry ball of weeds blowing around, that's for sure. Anybody on here see them on a regular basis?
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 09:15 AM
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in the summer time up here in Canuckville there is quite a bit of them acctually
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 10:10 AM
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Drive across western Kansas on I-70 in the fall and the fences have become a tumbleweed filter!
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 10:13 AM
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im looking at some right now! he he
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 10:28 AM
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All over the place here. On a windy day it looks like the great tumbleweed migration.
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 10:36 AM
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Heck, send him a few... I bet shipping would not be that bad. Just have to find a big box...
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 10:55 AM
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Heck, send him a few... I bet shipping would not be that bad. Just have to find a big box...
Hey! Seriously, if anyone could do that, PM me. I'm interested!
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 12:49 PM
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When we get a bad wind here they tear up fences. People complain that move to new subdivisions when the pile so high they can't get out the door of their house.
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 01:48 PM
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when i drive over to eastern Wa in the summer u see them alot. It's from the sage brush that grows over there. It's kinda wierd u drive over the moutains and then it's like a desert over there.
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 03:53 PM
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we sure get em here. when its windy they pile up against all the fences
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 03:58 PM
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see them all the time in AZ
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 05:04 PM
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I have a whole bunch growing in my yard, and some of them are about 4 ft high.
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 05:40 PM
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This is crazy. I can't imagine being out in your yard and having to keep an eye peeled to make sure one of these things don't take you out!

Still no offers to send me one? It doens't need to be big...soccer ball size would be perfect!
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Old Oct 9, 2007 | 07:16 PM
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Next time I am out in the desert popping off rounds at helpless soda cans, I will grab you one. I will probably go out in the next few weeks.
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 03:29 AM
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Originally Posted by I PASS GAS
This is crazy. I can't imagine being out in your yard and having to keep an eye peeled to make sure one of these things don't take you out!
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They do sting abit on a windy day........( dont ask)

I've worked wrecks were folks( ussually out-of-staters) have crashed and burned dodging them.....
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