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Blizzard of a different color - 12/24/2006
PUEBLO WEST, Colo. (AP) - The blizzard that dumped up to 4 feet of snow in Colorado's mountains brought a different force of nature to this Front Range town: tumbleweeds that piled up to 20 feet high.
"I couldn't see out the kitchen window, and it's on the second story," said Lisa Jackson, a resident who lives near the Pueblo West golf course. She and her husband were still trying to dig out from the tightly packed weeds Friday.
Neighbor Michelle Peulen drove through the tumbleweed storm Wednesday.
"It was like being in a weird video game, dodging the tumbleweeds," she said.
On Friday, residents were helped by crews from the Pueblo West Metropolitan District, a group of Pueblo West volunteer firefighters, and a "chain-gang" of inmates from the Pueblo County jail.
Don Sailing, the metro district's general manager, said the weeds piled up next to homes along U.S. 50, where houses are close together.
Residents of the town about 40 miles south of Colorado Springs can get permission to burn the weeds to dispose of them, Sailing said.
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