Just after dark Friday, intense rains hit Montgomery County and surrounding areas. Reports of torrential rains and hail came from multiple locations. The Huntsville State Park area was hardest hit. The asphalt roadways were green, covered with leaves and pine needles stripped from the trees by pea size to grapefruit size hail.
Shannon Davis, who lives east of the park and works at BawMaw’s Cake Shop in Conroe, bought a new car on Christmas Eve. Still with paper tags, hail stones the size of baseballs destroyed her perfect car.
The patrol cars of two DPS Troopers in the area also sustained heavy hail damage. New Waverly Fire Departments Engine 73 at the Phelps Station was seriously damaged by the large and plentiful hail as well, and may be a total loss. As of this writing, the department is awaiting a claims adjuster’s arrival to assess the damage.
Several New Waverly and Willis Area firefighters’ vehicles suffered extensive damage, along with many of their homes.
Around 2:45 a.m. Saturday, another wave of the storm arrived, causing extensive hail damage along Calvary Road.
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