‘Poppy Apocalypse’: A California City Swarmed By Selfie Stick-Toting Tourists

The cause of all this consternation? Poppies. Specifically, a super bloom, often seen after a particularly wet winter. Super blooms happen about once a decade in the region, but this bloom was different. “This is something unlike anything we have ever experienced in our City and may never again,” the city wrote.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704707396/poppy-apocalypse-california-city-swarmed-by-selfie-stick-toting-tourists