So i'm driving around in my brand new MCS and i'm blasting the music having a good time driving. Then I hear a scraping/scratching noise coming from my car. My instinct is to freak out in this kind of situation and suspect the worst. So i pull over as quick as possible so i can get out and see what happend to my baby. As I inspect my car i'm expecting some sort of terrible body damage that just came out of no where, untill I notice a tumbleweed jammed up above the left front wheel , thank god i think to myself. I pull the freakin tumbleweed out and motor on.

 

Ah well, that's better than what I was thinking as I was reading your post... thought you were going to say you forgot you tuned to a rap station and it was just some record scratching you heard.

 

A tumbleweed in Washington? I was wondering where I put that!
Glad your car was OK.

 

I believe they have deserts in eastern WA that are comparable to those of TX.. I spent some time at the Yakima Firing Center many years ago, and I was amazed at the desolation. I also finished high school in Seattle (many, many years ago), and never imagined there were deserts like there are on the other side of the mountains.

 

In this case I think WA can claim something bigger than Texas. A megaflood 15,000 years ago created the Washington Scablands. The flood was the largest flood for which there is geological evidence. It really left some scars.

 

OT Great link. Just lost half an hr.

 

It more than likely blew across the border from somewhere between Hermiston and Boardman via Heppner.

When I bought my Civic I was living in Hermiston and drove up to the Tri Cities. The car had about 40 miles on the clock and a car in front of me spit out a bolt from under its tire on the freeway and slammed it into my front bumper, where it made a deep gouge.

I was expecting something equally bad for your new car. Glade it was only a tumbling tumbleweed. Stay away from Heppner, though, there were some stacks of them in the barrow pit about five or six feet tall.

 

Hummm, tumbleweeds. Lots of them in CO too. Do I hear one for some premium ClearBra for tumbleweed protection.

I thought the worst, but you can deal with a TW.

 

Unless it gets caught around the cat and catches fire.

 

Gabe33,

Uh, how is it that you didn't see something as large as a tumbleweed? You do watch the road, don't you?

 

lol

yea well i hot one myself it just jump out at me

 

When driving through Laramie, WY on a road trip in 2003, I dodged tumbleweeds bigger than my MINI! :impatient

 

In the souther california high desert areas we used to look forward to hitting the bigger tumbleweeds in my old Sentra. The things exploded into thousands of pieces and the tires would pick up dozens of the little spikes. Quite exciting (not much to do out in that neck of the state)

 

thats funny... I used to go mudding in my '87 Sentra sedan (not much to do around here either!)