A town in Australia is threatened by ‘hairy panic’.
It’s actually nothing to do with paranoia about body hair or the like, but a plague of tumbleweed so severe houses are being buried.
Dry conditions mean the weed, officially known by its Latin name Panicum effusum, has been able to thrive.
And when the wind gets up, it carries clumps of the stuff to pile up outside houses, blocking windows, doors and cars.
People in Wangaratta, Victoria, are having to spend hours each day digging themselves out.
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