Sound and Fury?

It's a serious wind blowing through the screen porch.  The ever-skittish Kismet's ears are perked up, and while she appears to be sitting calm as the Buddha, inside you can tell she's lit up like a radar showing the incoming storms.  There's something just on the other side of the screen that's creak-creak-creaking in the wind, and somehow it reminds me of The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is talking with the fortune teller and looking into the crystal ball, and outside the storm is brewing and building.

Maybe I'm overplaying it.

This happens here, you know.  You think some kind of massive superstorm is rumbling your way like a crazed, relentlessly advancing sky army outfitted with lightning bolts and tornadoes, and you go outside and look at the weird, green clouds bubbling up out of the west, and then ... nothing.  Well, nothing as spectacular as you imagined.  Just a lot of rain, and maybe some hail and whooshy wind.

It's a little disappointing, actually, but when the left brain kicks in, you realize it's probably for the best.  Tornadoes tend to leave a lot of badness in their wake.  Big storms with big winds and big hail can be destructive in a big way.

I think it's because I've watched too much TV and seen too many smash 'em, crash 'em movies (which I admit I kind of like).  I want lots of sound and fury, but in the end, I'd like it to signify nothing.