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This frame grab from video released to AFP from Australian television's Channel 7 on February 18, 2016 shows a car surrounded by fast-growing tumbleweed outside a home in the town of Wangaratta, 250 kilometres (150 miles) northeast of Melbourne. Hairy panic is paralysing parts of an Australian town -- but it's not quite the existential nightmare it sounds, just a fast-growing tumbleweed. This season has seen an unusual amount of hairy panic – known scientifically as Panicum effusum – with hundreds of thousands of the fuzzy, yellowish plants swamping the entrances of homes, driveways and backyards. (Photo by AFP Photo/Channel 7)
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