V, if you have any friends who are into hollistic things and the universe they might be able to shed some light on all this devastation. We are just about ending a 3 year cycle now where things are 'at thier worst'. Things are supposed to start getting better in 2009. My friend really goes into all of it and explains it well, Im not so good at explaining it, but its more like we have given ourselves bad karma for awhile but the children born a couple years ago (called indigo babies) are here to fix 'us' as a universe, bring light and peace to humans and the weather patterns, give us good karma. If you remotely believe in that kind of stuff, look for better days ahead.