Heavy rain can cause an overwhelming amount of damage in a short amount of time. A homeowner in Linton, Indiana, now has the video to prove it. When flash flooding swept through the area on June 26, water came racing through Terrie Schaper Smith’s backyard like a small river. Her husband waded straight into it …

Usually, when a utility company trims the trees around your power lines, you might assume the crew is going to haul away anything it cuts down. In Clinton, Mississippi, a group of homeowners learned the hard way that sometimes the opposite happens. The debris gets left where it is. Months after Entergy contractors cut trees …

A South Jersey community is grieving alongside a family that has lived every parent’s worst nightmare. Elijah Stephen, a 3-year-old boy from Blackwood known to everyone as Eli, drowned in his family’s backyard pool late last month. He was rushed to a hospital, but his injuries were too severe. His family lost him days later. …

South Lake Tahoe residents are used to sharing their streets with black bears, but some encounters are cuter than others. A couple of homeowners recently filmed two bear cubs that found a backyard tetherball and started playing with it. They batted it back and forth like it had been put there just for them. Their …

For around 20 years, the tiny gray fox of Cozumel was thought to be extinct. No one had confirmed a sighting on the Mexican island in over 20 years. In fact, most assumed that the little animal was gone for good. It turns out they were wrong. The fox is still out there, and a …

A Pittsburgh family came face to face with a rather strange poolside guest. They walked into their backyard and found a large albino boa constrictor stretched out by the pool, soaking up the sun. The snake wasn’t hiding or coiled to strike, though. In fact, local animal control agents later described it as “lazily lounging …

A weekly grocery run went sideways for one 79-year-old great-grandmother in England. Rita Seymour, of Hook, Hampshire, has been banned for life from every Sainsbury’s and Argos store in the UK, gas stations and parking lots included. The ban followed a dispute with staff at her local store. Seymour says the whole ordeal left her …

If you plan on doing any home DIY renovations, you might want to make sure all your pets are safely out of the way first. A Maryland family decided to cut down a tree in their yard, and things definitely didn’t go as planned. The tree fell the wrong way, crushed their fence, and very …

Beware this summer while heading out to get-togethers where you’ll be doing a lot of eating food from the grill. This is especially true this week as everyone celebrates the 4th of July, which is why we’re revising this story from earlier in June.  A backyard barbecue in Minnesota ended with a teenager in emergency …

Forget the World Cup. This coyote has some serious moves. A backyard in the San Bernardino mountains has become the unlikely home field for a coyote with a thing for soccer. For weeks, the same wild coyote has been slipping into a man’s yard to play with a soccer ball. A Ring camera caught the …