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Tumbleweed snowman makes traditional appearance in New Mexico

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A tumbleweed snowman built in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico -- This could be just the thing that signals things are turning around after a rough 2020 for all.

Meet Albuquerque's answer to a snowman.

The city does get snow, but there's something else it gets a lot more of: Tumbleweeds!

So this frosty might better be named prickly, as he's made out of tumbleweeds.

The city's flood control authority gathers tumbleweeds, spray paints them white, then makes a 14-foot tall snowman.

The city has been doing it for 25 years.

It gets erected the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving -- which is named, what else? Tumbleweed Tuesday.

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