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A Tumbleweed Emergency

Help needed. Send tumbleweed plow!

It is likely a rare occasion, but one highway in Washington state was recently closed to traffic due the road being encased in tumbleweeds, and that included the cars and trucks on the highway, see A Blizzard of Tumbleweeds Caused a 10-Hour Traffic Jam in Washington State.

I don't believe tumbleweeds were one of the 10 plagues. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.