I remember it like it was yesterday, I had just bought a 1973 Monte Carlo a couple of days earlier. Because Cincinnati (The city of Seven Hills and Ten Thousand valleys) is surrounded by hills on the western side, it is believed that storms travel up "Tornado Alley" and the system runs into the hills and is ramped up and over the central section of the city and the brunt of the storms seem to touch down to the northeast of the city. The storm hit Sayler Park on the west side of the hills, skipped over the area on the east side of Price Hill and landed 10 miles away in Reading and Blue Ash then continued north east to Xenia and beyond).

As I stood facing west in our 4 story apartment building, all my neighbors were running to the basement with blankets and provisions while I was there in the hall taking pictures of the funnel cloud. They asked, "Aren't you going to take shelter in the basement?" To which I responded, "If it's my time to go, it doesn't matter if I'm standing here or in the basement with the building on top of me."

I didn't have any broken glass but, the insurance company paid to have the dents removed; golf ball sized hail packs quite a punch.

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