WaPo:Goats were stuck in traffic. Dozens of strangers helped milk them...
"Jose Garcia was hauling a load of goats to his California dairy farm when he hit a huge snowstorm as he drove through Utah. Traffic was at a standstill.
He felt panicked as hours ticked by with snow and high winds swirling around the truck, and no sign of movement on the freeway that evening, March 2."
@ai6yr A building next to mine had a pile of tumbleweeds 10 feet high and the entire length of the wall. Every single truck/SUV had tumbleweeds caught underneath it, and any truck with a snowplow attachment now looked like it had been plowing thorns. Going outside without being armored in a car meant risking being hit in the face with a thorn bush.
@ai6yr Yes, it's interesting that tumbleweeds are a staple of the "Western frontier" look, when they didn't get here until 1873. They are, rather, a staple of the "Western frontier as seen through Hollywood lenses."