Hurricanes, Earthquakes, the mad dog of the mideast, and Blood Red Lakes

Recently we've had a lot of things happening relatively close together.  Another madman regime is seemingly brought to it's knees, a giant hurricane is barreling toward the east coast of the United States, earthquakes have occured in the same area, and not too long ago I saw a story on Yahoo about a lake in Texas that had turned "blood" red.  There's always a lot of talk about it being the end times when stuff like this happens, but the Bible I read says we will not know the day the end comes, that is only for God to know.  Ghadafi is gone and I think that's great, but I'm not so sure they should be celebrating until it's clear that he's caught and will return no more.  I think a lot of people in Iraq  were skeptical until we caught Saddam and brought him to trial.  The hurricane that is coming to our east coast is being hyped on the news as the worst storm ever that the east coast has had to face because the area it's headed for hasn't seen a hurricane like that for quite some time.  I remember living in Florida for a few years and everytime a hurricane was coming it was huge news, the media would play it up like it was the end of the world and by the time it actually hit, if it did hit, it did little to no damage.  I'm not saying that is the case with this one, but I do think the media loves to stir up a frenzy when it comes to danger.  I would have thought the earthquakes would have been taken more seriously, one of my friends from high school joked on facebook "I'm sorry everybody, I left my phone on vibrate."  He and I were in high school in Seaside California when a 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco, so I know he really knows it's no joke, but it seems like a lot of people in that area didn't really worry too much about it.  A lady I saw on the news was being asked by a reporter what she thought when the earthquake hit and her response was "really, we had an earthquake?  I was just shopping in Macy's and I didn't notice."  And as for that lake that turned "blood" red, well it actually turned out it was mud red.  It was either due to the color of the clay underneath the lake, or some chemical all the dead fish put off.  (The fish died due to the heat wave and lack of water in the lake.)  So is it the end times?  I don't think so, but in all honesty, I can't really answer that, only God can.