Yes - I guess never say never - but for sure that was an extremely rare occurrence for that area.. Someone else mentioned Fran - I was in Raleigh (Cary) for that (what was left of the eye went right over my house), and that was another rare set of events. Most of the damage/power outage was due to there being so much rain in the area in the weeks before Fran came - a ton of the loblolly pines with shallow root systems (which are everywhere) blew down in winds that normally would not have caused such major issues that far inland (and with the ground already saturated there was nowhere for all the rainfall to go).