I had one of those, just below the crest of a hill in southwest Wisconsin. When the tornado came though, it took off the south side of the roof of the barn and knocked an oak tree down on my old Ford wagon--and we were the lucky ones. The folks who had the "country house atop [the] hill" lost their house & barn to the twister. It was at that point that country living didn't seem all that attractive.
Tornados (tornadoes?) can be rough on buildings... They play heck with antennas (antennae?) as well.
On the other hand, the country has got much lower background radio frequency radiation, and atop a hill gives good line-of-sight. And, if the tornado knocks down the house and antennae, well, then it's renovation time!