You know how everything's bigger in Texas? Well, that goes for their tornadoes. Holy heck, watching the tornadoes that blasted their way outside Dallas yesterday made my toes curl! And the most amazing news of all -- so far no deaths have been reported, thank goodness.

Anyway, you have to see this storm. It's like the finger of God is striking the Earth. But that didn't scare folks from filming it anyway. Storm chasers were still outside, filming these monster tornadoes.

Does anyone think it's remarkable that in the year 2012, which just happens to be the year the world comes to an end according to the Mayan calendar, Mexico gets hit with a massive earthquake? I mean, that's a sign, right?

According to the not-at-all-paranoid website 2012Discovery, the U.S. government is trying to cover up the large number of earthquakes that have shook Mexico's neighbor, Guatemala. So, you know, it must be true. Anyway, if we look at images from yesterday's earthquake, I think we may get a pretty good idea of what the end of the world will look like!

Malia Obama with her fatherLate yesterday, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico and later sent scary aftershocks through Mexico City. The rumbler toppled houses near the epicenter, cracked building facades in the country's capital, and for a while there, Mexicans who have experienced their fair share of earthquakes were still freaked out. Sheesh, who wouldn't be?!

Thankfully, despite the earthquake being "one of the strongest" they've ever felt in the region, there have been only 11 injuries and no deaths reported. They really seemed to luck out -- even in cases that could have been devastating, like when a pedestrian bridge crushed a passenger bus below. The bus was empty except for the driver, and he escaped with only minor injuries. Amazing! Similarly, one very famous American who was visiting our neighbors to the south is a-okay. That would be President Obama's 13-year-old daughter, Malia, who was in Oaxaca for a school-sponsored service project.

Here's a problem most of us will never, ever in our lives face: The nation of Kiribati may soon find itself entirely under water! The small nation looks like paradise right now. It's a series of tiny islands (atolls) in the South Pacific, near Fiji and Papua New Guinea: White sands, warm, crystal waters, palm trees. But it would be hell if your WHOLE COUNTRY became under water. 

Thank climate change for this unhappy situation. Climate change, urg! Why are you so pervasive and nasty? It's causing ocean waters to rise world-wide, and since the atolls of Kiribati are already very close to sea level ... shudder. What are the Kiribati people going to do? 

The news out of the central and southern part of the country is absolutely devastating this morning after nearly 100 tornadoes ripped through several states including Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Alabama, leaving many people dead in their wake. But there's one story from the chaos that will warm your heart.

A 7-year-old boy named Jamal is recovering from injuries after being caught in a tornado that sucked the second story off his home Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina. And, when I say "caught in a tornado," I literally mean he was CAUGHT INSIDE OF A FUNNEL CLOUD: It picked him up and then dropped him 350 feet from his home on the embankment of Interstate 485. It's unbelievable, but somehow this little boy survived this horrific ordeal.

After tornadoes ripped through the central and southern United States last week, there was one story that stood out among the many tragedies. Angel Babcock, 14 months, was found alone in a field, 10 miles from her home in New Pekin, Indiana, from which a twister had ripped her. Though sadly her parents and her two young siblings were found dead, there was at least some ray of hope in her hanging on to life. That perhaps amidst such great tragedy, we could celebrate in her miraculous survival.

Unfortunately, today came news that Angel passed away at 4:10 p.m. EST.

Deadly tornadoes left behind mountains of debris.March may historically "come in like a lion," but no one could have guessed it would kick off with a string of deadly tornadoes like the ones that lashed ten states yesterday. Incredibly, there have been 95 reports of tornadoes from Friday across the central and southern U.S.  The devastation many of these storms have left behind is nothing short of extreme. As far as casualties go, we know that the entire (albeit tiny) town of Marysville, Indiana is "completely gone" and the death toll is at 35 (17 in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, three in Ohio and one in Alabama).

As many cities and towns attempt to recover, absolutely heartwrenching stories are emerging.

The Doomsday Clock has been set at 11:54 for four years, and now, scientists have moved it up one minute. And though generally, I think end of the world talk is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, this one gives me (and should give everyone else) pause. This is the real deal, people. This is based on what we're doing to the planet and real science, not some hocus pocus made up stuff combined with religion and nonsense science. This is real. And this is scary.

The Doomsday Clock is a figurative timepiece used as a "barometer of humankind’s fate," according to the Washington Post. And on Tuesday, it was moved one minute closer to midnight, which marks the first time it has been nudged forward since 2007. It's now 11:55 and we have five minutes left to save humanity.