i dunno...you gotta be pretty dumb to die in a hurricane. Theres like days of advanced warnings, everybody knows whats coming. What happened in North Carolina is different, that came out of nowhere. But as for staying on the coastline with a hurricane coming...sorry,just plain stupid.
No, it actually didn't. It was forecast to stall over that area.
I think what got a lot of people is the rainfall amount and the subsequence, unprecedented flash flooding and mudslides.
I think THAT is what was unexpected, and it appears that that is what did all the damage.