By Annabelle Childers | KRDO through CNN
FOUNTAIN, Colorado (KRDO) — Sturdy winds Saturday night time and into Sunday morning in Southern Colorado downed energy traces and tree limbs. However for one couple residing in Fountain, the wind introduced out so many tumbleweeds, they will’t even get out of their very own driveway.
“We couldn’t even get out of right here, this was all full,” Marlies Gross mentioned, pointing on the tower of tumble lurking at her entrance door.
“I regarded out of my toilet window and a tumbleweed saved on leaping up on the window!”
This isn’t personification, Gross quickly realized her residence was really enclosed by tumbleweeds.
“Horrible! Take a look at that from the deck!” she says, noticing all of her exits are blocked. “I opened the entrance door and it’s complete tumbleweeds. It was filled with tumbleweeds.”
Gross says she tried to depart her driveway, however she couldn’t see the highway in entrance of her.
“I nearly bumped into the neighbor’s fence as a result of I didn’t know the place I used to be,” she mentioned.
Her neighbors spent hours Sunday morning, serving to clear the highway for Gross and her husband.
“You needed to combat your self via the tumbleweeds, which have been above the automobile. You needed to push your self into it.”
However even after the assistance, the sight from her again porch is a sea of tumble.
“You form of nearly, you realize, you're feeling helpless,” she mentioned, “I believed it was a foul dream.”
It’s not a dream although, it’s her actuality. It’s a actuality with unknown subsequent steps and a complete lot of tumbleweeds. Gross says she and her husband are engaged on contacting their insurance coverage supplier and likewise El Paso County to get assist clearing them out.
However, now they’re simply hoping the wind doesn’t blow much more tumbleweeds into this space, making the state of affairs even worse.
“We nonetheless can’t stroll anyplace. I don’t understand how what we’re going to do, how we do away with these tumbleweeds. Oh, it’s horrible.”