James Patrick

It's rare for Iowans to be blasted by a Winter Storm in the month of May.
The most snow to fall in a single day in Waterloo in the month of May is 2" in 1945 and 1947. The most recent time it has snowed in May in Waterloo was a trace in 2005...

In a 100 Meter Race earlier this year in Madrid, Spain, a runner dashes across the finish line to win the race, and as he attempts to slow, he trips, and ends up diving under the bleachers. The space that he slides under face-first appears to only be around one-foot high...

Last August an alligator was allegedly spotted in Council Bluffs (which turned out to be false) and now there's been a sighting in Des Moines.
On Sunday, May 2, the Animal Rescue League Animal Services received calls about an alligator lurking around a parking lot of an apartment complex...

A man moving from Alabama to Naples, Florida, traveled 300 miles with an owl stuck in his truck’s grille. The owl survived.
The man said that he saw a car ahead of him swerve on the interstate to avoid the owl. But then he hit it and it became lodged in the front of the truck...

A giant chunk of a Chinese rocket that launched on April 29 is zipping around Earth in low orbit — and no one is for sure where it will land.
The core of the 22.5-ton rocket will reenter Earth sometime soon and is nearly 100-feet long and over 16-feet wide...

Full House was a pretty happy sitcom, right? Danny, DJ, Michelle, an uncle, dad's best friend, and even Kimmy Gibbler.
But behind its outer layer of family fun, Comedian Benjamin Apple shows a few of the more disturbing moments of the series by cramming together full episodes…

In Waterloo, there was measurable rain in just six of the 30 days in April for a grand total of only .40". It's the second-least amount of precipitation in the month of April since 1895 in Waterloo. The city averages over 4.5” of rain in April...

If you’re going to pull up in a van to try and rob a man pumping gas, remember: The guy is holding a hose that can spray a highly flammable liquid all over you. Some guys in Chile found this out:
I like how he made sure to get the inside of that van completely soaked in gas …

The world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge is now open in Portugal. The record breaker is 1,692 feet-long and hangs 574 feet above the River Paiva.
The bridge is called “Arouca 516” --- named after nearby city of Arouca and the ‘516&CloseCu…

Sigh. It has happened again -- and incorrectly spelled the same way.
On April 18, 2019, in the city of Doral, the road crew got an 'F" in spelling when the crosswalk was painted with SCOHOL. 
Fast forward to almost EXACTLY two years later on April 26, 2021, and about 200 miles north to Orange Cou…