Visitors walk through poppy fields during a "super bloom" in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on Saturday, March 16, 2019. But for one small city in Southern California, the idyllic scenes have become a chaotic nightmare: The “Poppy Apocalypse.”The harbingers of destruction? “Those hills are just covered with millions of poppies,” Kim Cousins, president of the Lake Elsinore Valley Chamber of Commerce, told the Times. “This is unlike anything we’ve ever seen,” Manos wrote in a post titled “POPPY PROBLEMS” shared to Facebook on Tuesday. “Our employees that have been working 7 days straight and 12 hour days are being met with the worst kinds of behavior,” the city wrote in a Facebook post.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 11:04 UTC