Cross-posted from Topic. [by Rachel Monroe and Theo Stroomer] “Several years ago, Colorado-based photographer Theo Stroomer heard about a small town on the Colorado plains that had been inundated with tumbleweeds. Though they’re rarely covered outside local press, tumbleweed storms actually happen with some regularity. They occur when wind and weather systems conspire such that the spiny clumps tumble in by the hundreds of thousands, or sometimes millions, engulfing stores and houses and cars in…
