If you have the feeling that proportions are getting a bit biblical these days, you may be right. The latest: Unprecedented Swarms of Locusts Are Devouring Crops and Slamming Into Planes in East Africa. Interestingly, in the book of Exodus, the locusts come right after a thunderstorm of hail and fire. (I’m pretty sure the next plague will be Jim Jordan addressing the Senate Impeachment trial)

+ Billions of locusts swarm through Kenya – in pictures.