On a long drive to Phoenix this Thanksgiving weekend, I encountered a blowing tumbleweed THE SIZE OF MY CAR. They're not all soft twigs, being held together by a root of some type. FYI, don't hit them. :smile:

 

Ouch! What caused the windshield crack? A baby tumbleweed?

 

I was just motoring along minding my own business travelling about five over on Rt. 58 East to Mojave from Bakersfield, and it was pretty windy. I saw some small tumbleweeds, around a foot to two large. Most of the time I could avoid it. However, coming around this turn going uphill, I spied this sucker. It was huge. The diameter was about the size of the car (about 6-7 feet wide!) slowly spinning diagonally across traffic. Having just past a car, driving in the leftmost lane, I couldn't really jump in front of him, and thinking that it'll just disintergrate into small pieces like the other tumbleweeds, I hit it smack dab center of the friggin windshield. I heard a crack, I blinked from the sound, and this behemoth of a fracture appeared in front of me.

 

So sorry for the big boo-boo, Rune. On my springtime roadtrip (from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and back...through a total of 20 states), I encountered HUGE tumbleweeds in Wyoming, bigger than Wanda (my MCS)!!! I was bobbing and weaving all over the place...not fun! I hadn't considered that one could have broken my windshield...I was more concerned about scratching Wanda's all-Jet Black paint. However, on my way out of Houston, a big-rig cut me off, and its tire threw a huge rock into the windshield, cracking it. I have yet to replace it...and have the new windshield sitting in my living room...LOL!





Clo/Wanda

 

I suppose you could call them tumbleweeds you got in Arizona big... Here in Indiana you got to watch out for the ears of corn rolling out from the fields... some of them as big as houses. Why, just last week I watched one steam roll over a semi-trailer loaded with butter. Community of 300 ate for a week.



Sorry to hear of your crack-cident. God speed.