Is America Becoming Pantheistic?

 In recent days, watching TV coverage and reading newspaper coverage of Hurricane Sally, I have been struck by the use of what is called personification.  Personification is a poetic device which attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects.  

In past hours and days I have been amazed at all the human things Sally was able to do.  For instance, in today's New York Times, Sally "camp[ed] out"* over the Gulf waters, then "dawdl[ed] as it crossed over land.  Linguistically this is all very colorful, and perhapswill even be called cute by some.  

I'll be coming up with more examples of this sort of thing later.  But, at least for the weather news industry, it seems tropical storms -- which do have names, after all -- can have all kinds of human qualities, and accomplish the most amazing things, all while consisting mostly of simple water and wind. 

All this begins to transmogrify from personification into pantheism (the belief that God is in all things, and all things are God).  But I suppose that if people can "whip into a fury,"  a storm can "camp out."

*Did it use camp fires to keep warm?  Or perhaps it whipped up some marshmallows and toasted them.