Watch how this city in the California desert was taken over by TUMBLEWEED

They say tumbleweed only rolls past after someone tells a bad joke.

But there was nothing to laugh about in this Californian city in the past few days after it was taken over by tumbleweed.

Heavy winds blew thousands of tumbleweeds into the desert city of Victorville on Monday.

Not only did they roll across streets – like they usually do in westerns – the bushes barrelled their way into people’s gardens and driveways.

A spokeswoman for the city said up to 150 homes were covered in the tumbleweed, which were brought there by 60mph winds.

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“It’s an invasion, definitely,” Victorville resident Tanya Speight told ABC7 News.

“Normally you get a few flying down the street or whatnot but never this many. It’s never been this bad.”

Nav Mangat said one of her neighbours was left trapped in his home for two hours by the tumbleweed piled high outside his property.

“There was like a hundred of these bushes,” she said.

“They were just flowing like it was a tornado yesterday.”

A huge clean-up operation co-ordinated by the San Bernardino fire department took place on Tuesday to reed the weeds from the city.