In the late 1970s, I had a tornado pass directly over my house. It came out of the southwest & there is a high hill directly behind my house, the West. It laid a long line of timber down behind me & also to the east of me. It swooped down just enough incoming over that hill to get my roof, but no other damage. It was amazing to look at those roof shingles though. There would be shingles Gone Completely, tabs & all, with the shingle on top of it un-ruffled, as if something had grasped the lower part of the shingle & snatched it through the nails without disturbing the one over its upper portion.
For a distance of probably a half mile or so every tree that was down was pointing in a northeasterly direction "Except" for four. These four all stood in front of my Dad's house about a 100 yards north of me & on the opposite side of the road, not as closely snuggled against the hillside. These four were in a north to the south line in front of his house. At least three of them would have gone onto his house had they followed the line of the others. These four all fell toward the north or at a near right angle to the others. On the south side of his house were two trees a large maple & a Pear tree. These could both have hit t his house had they fell ion the pattern of those in front, But they went back to the easterly line like all those others so none hit his house at all. His house had an older metal roof which also suffered damage & he had to re-roof also. We were both fortunate to have come out as well as we did.
