I think a lot of people are going to be scratching their heads and wondering how a lower end category 1 hurricane produced so much wind damage. It's basically a perfect scenario to maximize wind impacts since the system was strengthening through landfall (those tend to pack more of a punch with mixing stronger winds to the surface). And it happened to be placed right in the 4th or 5th largest metro area in the United States.
Sort of like what Katrina did in its southeast Florida landfall with its outsized wind impact.