Why does the media refer to the power or forces of nature as "natures FURY", which implies that nature has a conscious mind and chooses to display an angry outburst?

It’s the same sensationalism that they apply to stories about humans. They are trying to grab our attention, and hold it fast. Generally, it just makes me lose respect for whatever news agency I’m hearing it from.

Weather and nature have been anthropomorphized since ancient times. It is a handy way for humans to understand nature’s variation form a normal day.

Because there’s no controlling it (unless you believe conspiracy theories) and when unleashed fully, it can be very devastating in it’s ‘fury’ with no regards to good or bad people, children or adults, etc…

They compare this to how some females behave sometimes

y’all know its true

@woodcutter Heck ya, I admit that!!

Hmm, & yet you claim “this bugs the crap out of me” implying you get so angry you shit in your pants…really? :/

Just because of the devastation a natural disaster can wreak. If you look at Moore, OK, it looks like a giant walked through flinging cars and girders and reducing houses to piles of rubble.

Probably for the same reasons many of us project strictly human traits onto animals. We all know Milo doesn’t really borrow Gail’s computer, and that dogs don’t seriously wish for thumbs so they can write us a love note. It’s just something we strange humans do.

Yes, agreed, but still drives me nuts! lol
I also like the saying that nature is a “force to be reckoned with.” Yeah..as IF we can reckon with the great and powerful Oz. lol

I guess if this drives you mad, you’ll have trouble staying sane. Overly dramatic, hyperbolic, exciting language is used everywhere to draw attention to what one is saying. (as @ucme suggests). What color would you like your straight jacket to be? We have a lovely new print with green and blue leaves and delicate touches of violet. Might that suit you. lol

Hell hath no fury like [Mother Nature] scorned, and no jack asses like a newscaster with a live microphone.

@Sunny2 Haha..well, nothing I am losing sleep over but…

“Eywa has heard you… Eywa has heard you!” Neytiri

”...... Be afraid. Be very afraid.” Veronica Quaife

It’s like when mountaineers say they have ‘conquered’ a mountain when they mean they have stood on the top of it for a few minutes.

They referred to the 1999 EF5 tornado that killed so many in the same area as “The Finger of God” and in the next breath were invoking God’s blessings on the survivors and those who lost loved ones. Media types are appealing to the American public. There’s no need to make sense: no reason to attempt reason. If they applied reason to such events, ratings would go down.