MONT BELVIEU, Texas — Trick-or-treating may have ended, but Mother Nature had one more scare for a neighborhood near Mont Belvieu Halloween night.
It suffered the most damage as storms rolled through the Houston area.
In fact, the National Weather Service confirms a tornado briefly touched down around 10 p.m.
“I mean, it got hairy,” said neighbor Brian Dietz. “But it didn’t last long, it blew through pretty quick.”
Dietz ducked inside his home just as the tornado toppled The Lanai subdivision’s sales trailer. A fence across the street was no match for strong winds. Pickets from it blew through the windows of a house where Don Fisher’s daughter-in-law hid in a bathroom.
“It would’ve been bad if she had been in the kitchen or dining room,” said Fisher. “She would have been hit with all kinds of glass.”
Down the street, Michael Waterloo suspects flying debris shattered the windows of his family’s mini-van.
“My wife probably hadn’t been home from a friend’s house trick-or-treating maybe 45 minutes,” said Waterloo.
Hurricanes come with some advance warning. Waterloo says there’s little time to prepare for a tornado.
“It’s a little scary,” said Waterloo. “We’re very fortunate and very blessed that I may be replacing a van and a few windows and that’s it.”
Work is already underway to recover from a Halloween the neighborhood won’t soon forget.