PASADENA, Texas — When Acardio Cadena was trying to assess the damage done to his Pasadena, Texas, home from a recent tornado, he had to step over his wooden fence. 

“I tried to go to the backyard because it was so windy and I saw metal things flying and I was just scared to go outside,” Cadena said. 

He was relieved when it was his only fence and a small part of his roof that were damaged, but it was a different story for his neighbors, whose roofs were torn off and their yards and roads were blanketed by debris. 

“Everything OK?” Cadena shouted to his neighbor. 

Cadena checked on his neighbor Richard, who only gave Spectrum News 1 his first name. 

“It took out those limbs and snapped the pine tree, held onto it until it landed here,” Richard said. “A limb busted out my back window.” 

The tornado snapped the pine tree like a twig.

Cadena has been a part of this community just southeast of Houston for more than 25 years. He says this isn’t the first time its seen disaster. 

“This is the third time,” he said. 

However, it doesn’t surprise him that his neighbors are looking out for each other. 

Even strangers like Houston native Hunter Garcia volunteered to lend a hand. His hometown has experienced many hurricanes. 

“We went to San Antonio for Ike, so I was at Sea World. Harvey I wasn’t here either, but it was messed up,” Garcia said. “But that’s why I’m here, just trying to give back.” 

This quiet neighborhood heard the tune of chainsaws cutting trees down and debris getting dumped to be picked up. 

The tornado wreaked havoc in Cadena’s neighborhood, but he is just grateful that everyone is safe. 

“I was walking around my neighborhood...and everybody was asking, ‘You need help?’ Everybody was OK,” Cadena said.