The wind blows fast in Cibola, March and April are our windiest months! It’s allergy season for many, but that isn’t the worst part of the wind.
When driving down Elkin’s Road this last week, I saw something mortifying! The wind had brought to life a beast. Standing 100 feet tall, a monster came together and formed from the tumbleweeds blowing in the wind.
The Tumbleweed Terror stood with skin yellow and coarse as the Sandstone Bluffs. His teeth were sharp as razors, eyes hollow like the bat caves with claws jagged as malpais. Through the high winds, the entire Village of Milan could hear his pitched screech. Bringing a horror to the community. My jaw dropped.
I was only an onlooker, trying to make my way to the dump. I knew I should’ve taken Route 66! This beast of thorns glared over the innocent village, his intentions clear to all who could see – pure destruction and disaster.
I thank God for the Milan Police and Fire who watch vigilantly over the village. I am grateful the New Mexico Staters are based there despite them the Tumbleweed Terror kept growing in size, his anger knowing no bounds!
He began to send out dirt and old dead weeds of the winter into people’s yards. He would send out bits of himself, massive tumbling bushes, to smash into the unsuspecting citizens homes. I saw him kick a pickup, nearly lifting it off the ground, sending tumbleweeds all over the poor truck, scraping the paint with the claws of his horrible feet.
As the wind picked up speed, the monster grew taller and taller, he moved with intense speed to tower over the car wash. He spooked residents into their cars, those who could get in before the horrible beast of thorns made his way over were lucky, the others were assaulted in a hail of flying weeds and thorns, dirt and grains of sand.
As Milan police and fire showed up to help and stop the Tumbleweed Terror, the wind calmed, and he fell apart. Bits of his body, tumbleweeds, collapsed on top of the people and into the unsuspecting residents’ yards.
Milan police and fire managed to scare the beast away. The police and fire chief said the best way to keep this monster from coming back is to trash your weeds and keep your yards clean.
Beware, Cibola, the Tumbleweed Terror could rise up at any moment!