I visited a friend and her family living near Washington DC. I ended up house-sitting for them while they went on vacation. I got to know some of the neighborhood kids. One of them gave me a tour of the neighborhood and told me who lived in each house on the block.
Some kind of plumbing problem arose, for which the solution was to pour a lot of icewater down the drains.
While still out of town, the entire family developed some nasty flu-like illness, all at the same time. After they had it for a week with no improvement, they cut their vacation short. Their doctor prescribed an experimental antiviral drug, which did cure it after another week or so.
They thanked me for taking care of the plumbing problem. Then it was discovered that the icewater had frozen the pipes, which sprang leaks in numerous places, so they were very upset with me.
It was also discovered that the house had been robbed, and a lot of money was gone. Circumstantial evidence pointed to the postman. I also for some reason suspected that the postman had infected them with a genetically engineered flu virus, and believed that the postman accidentally infected himself and died. The family didn’t know the postman’s name or where he lived, but I’d met him and one of the neighborhood kids had shown me where he lived.
We went to the postman’s house, and though his car was in the driveway, he didn’t answer the door. The door was open, so we went inside. There were sacks of $20 and $100 bills everywhere. I started gathering them, and asked someone else to look for the postman’s body.
It turned out that the postman was alive and well. One of the family members had accidentally dropped the money into a container of mail, and the postman had been planning to return it when the family got back from vacation, but he hadn’t realized that they had returned early.
Later we were watching the news on television, and multiple tornados had hit the Kansas City area causing heavy damage. They showed amateur video footage from various places. Then they cut to a live feed from a camera in the city zoo. The tornado had destroyed most of the animal cages, so the surviving animals were wandering around. Many of them were attacking each other. As we watched, a gorilla approached the pole the camera was mounted on, wrenched the camera free, and threw it to the ground.
An octopus had climbed a power pole and had discovered that it would get shocked if it touched more than one of the power lines. There were insulating covers suspended inches over each line, so it figured out how it could climb on those and carefully make its way to the next power pole.