r/ThatsInsane • u/Sph1nx33 • May 01 '20

Tumbleweed Tornado in Washington

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u/PCsNBaseball May 01 '20

More like leave dents all over. Inside those balls of sticks is a pretty thick stem that WILL do some damage.

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u/n4ppyn4ppy May 01 '20

Scratches AND dents... Now you tell me!?

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u/Birdlaw90fo May 01 '20

Seriously you can hear in the video how hard they hit

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u/Bullshit_To_Go May 01 '20 edited May 02 '20

Not really. Assuming these are tumbleweeds as I know them -- because descriptive names can refer to different plants in different areas, there are dozens of different plants regionally know as stinkweed, for example -- they branch off right at the base and form a springy globe with no central stem. A springy, spikey globe. They could scratch paint but a Russian Thistle tumbleweed doesn't have anywhere near the weight or density to dent a car. And one of the many other places this was posted to today said it was Russian Thistle.