If the pandemic didn't already seem like enough going on, how about a massive swarm of cicadas we haven't seen in 17 years?
You know those GIANT bugs you learn about in school that live underground and only come out every 17 years? Well, it's been 17 years...
Whenever you get a huge group of 17-year olds together, you just know it's going to be loud. Really loud. It doesn't matter whether they happen to be humans or cicadas.