James Patrick

Police in Amsterdam were on a routine patrol at night when they saw a lifeless body lying on the snow….it was a snowman.
The police wrote on their Facebook page: Saw a person lying lifeless on the ground in the distance. After our colleagues approached the ′′ body&CloseCurlyDoubleQ…

Someone is driving around in a Fart Hole.
It's a 2020 Honda CR-V with a complete VIN of: 7FART6H90LE000420.
Think it's fake? I did, too. But then I looked it up. It's real.
If you're the owner of FART HOLE, there's a recall where the rear subframe bolts were improperl…

On Saturday morning (2/6) on I-94 near Milwaukee, a pickup truck skidded on some snow and ice, launched itself over the barrier wall of an overpass, and fell 70 feet.
The video (below) appears to show the truck hitting a snowbank just before the fall...

He calls it a "Skelecaster." It's part Fender Telecast and part Human Skeleton. 
A Florida musician who goes by the name Prince Midnight told The Huffington Post that his uncle died in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 1996 at the age of 28, and his skeleton was dona…

A photographer in Hokkaido, Japan, captured a photo of a Spotted Deer wandering through the snow with the head of another deer stuck in its antlers.
The buck is walking around face-to-face with a rival male deer that has lost the rest of its body during what must have been a morbid battle...

The man who ‘Streaked’ during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl has been officially identified and charged with a crime.
According to WFLA, authorities identified the man as 31-year-old Florida man Yuri Andrade of Boca Raton. He was charged with trespassing and post…

On Saturday in the Uinta Mountains in Utah (the highest mountains in the state) two brother and three of their friends were snowmobiling in an area where they have been many many times before. So it was an area that they were quite familiar with...

The wind chill temperature is a “feels like” temperature. It is how cold people and animals feel when outside.
According to the National Weather Service: As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temp…

As the blizzard blew through the state on Thursday, the storm system dropped a handful of inches of snow along with it, leading to big drifts and hazardous travel conditions.
Unofficial snowfall totals as reported by the Iowa State Mesonet:
Marion 6"
Cedar Rapids 5...

A Blizzard is defined as: Blowing and/or falling snow with winds of at least 35 mph, reducing visibilities to a quarter of a mile or less for at least three hours.
But how often are these issued within the state of Iowa?
The Iowa Environmental Mesonet has created a graph (below) sh…