I've lived in Hillview the past 14 years. I remember the stupid derailment. Thankfully I wasn't close enough to have any bad effects of it getting to my house. A guy I work with lived in the house right next to where it happened. It was a major problem for weeks and screwed up his house because of the chemicals burning for so long. He basically lived in one of the houses in the picture below behind that smoke.
I lived off of Mt Washington road about a couple miles from where the tornado hit. Didn't know how bad it was until a few days later when I went down that way and you could see where I believe it tore through the trees on one side of Preston Hwy and then hit the houses across the street on the other side. I was down in the basement just watching TV and saw the warnings come on the TV and didn't think much of it. That is at least twice that a tornado missed me by a few miles. Here's a clip I found about it. At 8:35 it looks like Little Flock Baptist Church to get an idea of where this took place.
Yeah man you were very fortunate to have it miss you. I don't know if its PTSD or something like that...... but I stay prepared now. Anytime there's a warning I got my kids in the basement and have supplies stored in case the worst happens. I remember after the tornado, that night we had to sit in the ruins of our house to keep looters away. My dad was so stressed feeling everything and the fact people tried looting he actually shot at them a couple of times with his shotgun. People like that are the scum of society
