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A weed is causing in a small Australian town. It kind of looks like a movie. The weed is called "hairy panic". It is clogging up homes and in the small Australian town of Wangaratta, Victoria. Hairy panic is a that is found in Australia. It has long hairs along the of its stalks. The dead grass gathers in large bundles, which are blown across the . It is a big problem in Wangaratta because there is a of it in the town. It has reached roof in some areas. Residents cannot reach their garages because it is piled so .

Many residents have left until the weed has gone. They are fed up with spending hours a day clearing of dead grass from their . For some, it is a to fight through the wall of weeds to get into their home. Pam Twitchett told Australia's ABC news that the weed was "mentally draining". Another resident, Jason Perna, said: "It makes it to get the car out in the morning - if you can find it." He also said the problem wasn't so , saying: "It's a first-world . We don't put it on the scale of any of the famine or going on in the world."

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