WELD COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Some neighborhoods in Weld County look like a desert storm zone currently: Homes surrounded by mountains of tumbleweeds after fierce winds.
This comes weeks after county officials warned neighbors to cut and maintain their weeds. Now, many homeowners are overwhelmed, asking what help, if any, they can expect from the county.
Massive mounds of tumbleweeds stretch across yards and driveways, some nearly reaching rooftops. While Jeanie Haselbush says this happens every year, she says the volume this time is unlike anything she’s ever seen.
“Every year it is a problem that we have that we do mitigate and we do take care of ourselves,” she said. “Some people shred them, some people have joked about bailing them, but as you can tell, this is actually way too much to try to mitigate in a short period of time.”…