Borrowing from the cicada thread. After a week in Appalachia (WV/TN), anyone who thinks that rural means quiet is very, very wrong. The loud truck dick-measuring contest is out of control.
I think we are a day or two behind H2O here. My 6 yo can handle them from the sidewalk but she freaked out when she went in the grass and the were near her feet. Constant hum, but not loud yet.