I have to take offense to your attitude about the Raleigh area. Here in Holly Springs, it just missed our neighborhood and headed up Holly Springs Road. Along that road the next day people were cutting 3 foot wide if not larger oak trees off of their homes, which are now flattened. On a road right across from my son's neighborhood, three brick houses are no longer there. Very large trees are just snapped in half along its path. In North Raleigh, an entire neighborhood is gone, with several dead including three children, don't tell me things weren't as bad here.
Its easy to see it on TV and say it wasn't too bad, but when you are out and about your own home town and see the damage first hand, its horrible.