A city in southern California has been taken over by thousands of tumbleweeds.
Heavy winds blew the plants into the small desert community of Victorville on Monday.
Victorville residents told US outlet ABC7 it's unlike anything they've seen before.
"Normally you get a few flying down the street or what not, but never this many ... It's never been this bad," resident Tanya Speight said.
Resident Nav Mangat said: "Yesterday I couldn't even stand here in my garage. There was like a hundred of these bushes. They were just flowing like it was a tornado yesterday."
Victorville spokeswoman Sue Jones told the Daily Press newspaper that around 100 to 150 homes were affected.
City authorities were reportedly out in force to help with the clean-up, collecting tumbleweeds by the truckfull and moving them out.
According to the Smithsonian, tumbleweeds may be icons of the American West but actually originated in Russia.
"They arrived as invaders from Russia around 1870 and have been impossible to get rid of since," Smithsonian material says.
