Sorry to hear you are stranded there. I guess there are worse places to be stuck, but I am sure you would prefer to be home. If it is any consolation it is raining in San Diego now. As for the doom and gloom posting, who knows what we are really doing to the environment whether in CERN using the LHC particle accelerator or elsewhere. In Haiti, the Christians are blaming the practitioners of Voodoo for the earthquake.
I do not know what the consequences of man made activities will be, but some of the prophets sure have some horrific theories. I posted most of this in jest because many of the sites go into UFO and other related links. One continually recurring theme is the official disclosure by the U.S. that there is extraterrestrial life. I remain skeptical of any such disclosure. Sometimes you have to take a break from watching the market or speculating about the bottom of the recession.
