To add to that end-of-the-world feel, here come the cicadas! Come on down, locust-like creatures! The time is nigh.

I might even want to go up to Massachusetts to check this out- sounds amazing.
"They take their time. Seventeen years, to be exact.
But any day now, millions of periodic cicadas will pop out of the ground and swarm up houses and trees.
They will come out by the millions — experts estimate 1.5 million per acre at the center of a hatch — to climb up trees and shed their skin. They come out white and turn a dark brown over the course of several hours. Then they don't do much except grow, mate and die." LINK