[Boats and yachts are piled together at Port Hinchinbrook, Australia, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. Image via AP]

Getting hit with that massive snow and ice storm? At least you're not waiting for a "catastrophic" cyclone in Queensland! As Premier Anna Bligh says, "This is 24 hours of quite terrifying winds... people need to be preparing themselves mentally."

The Shinmoedake volcano in Japan erupted again today, with experts saying it was "five times" more powerful than last week's eruption. The force of the explosion blew out windows five miles away and nearby residents have been urged to leave.

The National Arts Club, located in a mansion on Manhattan's tony Gramercy Park South, is known for its historic building, famous members, and lavish parties. Too bad part of it is in shambles and stuffed with junk.

Metro-North officials say the footage on this Youtube video—showing a train door that remains open for two and a half minutes as the train flies full speed through New York City—is "very disturbing." Um yeah.

Click to viewDid you know there's a "supervolcano" underneath Yellowstone National Park? It covers some 925 square miles and it just "took a deep 'breath,'" causing the ground to rise 10 inches in some places. Is it going to erupt?

A gas explosion killed one 19-year-old utility worker in Philadelphia's Tacony neighborhood today and injured six others. A bystander caught the enormous fireball on video.

Some 617 people have died and 14,000 left homeless after ruinous mudslides tore through neighborhoods around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This dog, Leao, has been visiting her owner Cristina Maria Cesario Santana's grave since Santana's death. Oh, my.

There's something uniquely terrifying about the word 'superstorm.' Maybe it's the "super." Or the "storm." Either way, California might be utterly destroyed by a weeks-long superstorm one of these days, say scientists. Get your luxury canoes ready.

Floods that swept through Australia this month have caused incredible destruction. But one man made the best of a terrible situation and filmed this eerie trip through a flooded McDonald's via canoe in Brisbane, Australia.

The opening night for the disastrous Spider-Man musical, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, has been delayed for a third time, to March 15th. The show was supposed to open last month. So, realistically, it will open June 3rd, 2014.

[A man in Brisbane, Australia paddles to safety on his surfboard as the flooded Brisbane River peaked at just under 15 feet today. Image via Getty]

Flooding in the Philippines has killed 40 people over the last two weeks. More than 22,000 are in shelters.

Parts of Brisbane, Australia — the country's third-largest city — are being evacuated due to heavy flooding.

The Way We Live Now: catastrophically. We can scarcely enumerate the varied and horrifying catastrophes befalling us at any given moment! Snow! Blight! Unemployment! Scams! Theft! Urban decay! The only way to survive is to be on the catastrophe's side!

The least fun part of the Vegas strip has to be the huge puddle of sulfuric acid outside the Wynn.

The city of Rockhampton, Australia has been one of the hardest hit from the recent "biblical" flooding across Queensland, with water levels hitting a peak of 30 feet there yesterday. A Getty Images photographer is documenting the deluged city.

A woman in Winnetka, Illinois received a terrifying cell phone call from her husband yesterday: though garbled, it sounded to her like he was being taken hostage. The SWAT team was called out. Whoops: it was a butt dial.

Days after thousands of blackbirds died in Arkansas, 500 blackbirds and starlings fell out of the sky along a Louisiana highway about 300 miles south. There's still no explanation why this is happening—other than the Apocalypse is here.

Flooding in the Australian state of Queensland has reached "biblical proportions."