Storm chaser Ashton Lemley was helping search through a Mississippi trailer park destroyed by tornadoes when he heard a kitten meowing from the rubble. The storms hit the rural community of Bogue Chitto early Thursday and injured at least a dozen people. Lemley searched in the dark for several minutes before finding the kitten trapped inside the remains of a wall. Video shows him pulling the frightened animal to safety and comforting it in his arms. The kitten did not appear to be seriously hurt. Lemley says several people already want to adopt the cat, with some suggesting the name “Tornado.”
A Taiwanese town embraces a slow pace of life through a snail race
People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season. Snow is developing in the northern Colorado mountains and foothills, with rain in Denver expected to change over to snow by Tuesday night. Up to 8 inches are possible. Higher elevations in Colorado could see up to a foot. The snowfall is expected to continue into Wednesday, followed by plunging temperatures and a widespread freeze. Snow in May is unusual for the region but not unheard of. A light dusting on June 2, 1951, was the latest time in the year Denver saw snow.
A Taiwanese town embraces a slow pace of life through a snail race
A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley's comet debris
The radio station WKRP isn't dead, and it's now live on air in Cincinnati. The call letters from the fictional station featured decades ago in a CBS sitcom were adopted by stations in the Cincinnati market in time for the Monday morning drive. The station's co-owner says delighted listeners have been mobbing the phone lines. The owners obtained the call letters by making a donation to a North Carolina nonprofit whose low-power radio station has had them since 2014. The show “WKRP in Cincinnati” ran from 1978 to 1982 and starred Loni Anderson, Howard Hesseman, Tim Reid and Richard Sanders as bumbling newsman Les Nessman.
A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley's comet debris
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse. The shower will peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and views will be best in the Southern Hemisphere. In the north, skywatchers will likely see fewer than 10 meteors per hour. Meteor showers happen when the Earth charges through trails of debris left behind from various space rocks. To glimpse the meteors, it’s best to go outside just before dawn and look for fleeting trails of light.
Chonkers the sea lion draws crowds to San Francisco's Pier 39
Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England