Unusually plentiful flowering of poppies in California led to a collapse on the roads

The unusually plentiful flowering of poppies in California has led to a collapse on the roadsA photo from open sources

In March, wild poppies bloom in Southern California (see photo), the spectacle of this violent manifestation of natural beauty is very impresses visitors. For this reason, for example, the influx of tourists to Walker Canyon and Lake Elsinore grows so much that local motorways barely cope with the increased flow of cars.

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And although such a pilgrimage takes place every year, the current one has become special: after several weeks of heavy rain on the hills of the lake and in the canyon a surprisingly violent flowering of poppies appeared, land, as they say, “splashed” with paints that are not here seen from time immemorial.

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For this reason, the city of Lake Elsinore was even forced to close the canyon and lake for visiting tourists, since on the highway I-15, which leads here and along which poppies are now also blooming, multi-kilometer traffic jams due to the influx of photographers. Moreover, some tourists want to take unique selfies on the backdrop of these fantastic flowers, endangering their lives, some of them have already been seriously injured, falling down on slopes of the canyon.

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The locals did not even imagine that ordinary flowers would create they have so many problems, especially on weekends when there is an influx of tourists in their poppy lands increases several times …

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