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Have You Seen This? Tumbleweeds take over Idaho road
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Some states in the U.S. use snow plows to clear snow from the road. One area in Idaho has to use them for tumbleweeds. - photo by Faith Heaton Jolley
THE WILD WEST Some states in the U.S. use snowplows to clear snow from the road. One area in Idaho has to use them for tumbleweeds.

In case you were wondering, the wild West is alive and well, particularly in Owyhee County, Idaho. Tim Tower took a video of a section of road that is being taken over by thousands of blowing tumbleweeds. With the added dramatic music, it feels like you are part of an Alfred Hitchcock horror movie.

While one or two tumbleweeds are fairly annoying but harmless, thousands of them can combine to create a massive wall of stickers. According to the video description, Tower filmed the video just after a snow plow made a path down the center of the road.

Its like the real-life version of that song from Fievel Goes West.

The video was posted in 2014, but has recently started going viral again.
Driver injured when semi rolls on I-70 in Russell County
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The driver of a semi-tractor hauling a trailer received what appeared to be minor injuries Saturday afternoon when the vehicle left Interstate 70 in Russell County and overturned.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reports the crash occurred at 1:51 on April 15, 4 miles east of U.S. 281 on I-70. The eastbound 2022 International was driven by Todd E. Collins, age 44, of Winchester, Kansas. The vehicle went off the roadway to the right, struck a guardrail and went into the south ditch, where it overturned and came to rest.

Collins was wearing a safety restraint. 

He was transported to Russell Regional Hospital.