The outlook was grim for the tricksters. Make that horrorific!
Officials in communities across New Jersey labeled their streets unsafe for trick-or-treating today after Saturday’s snowstorm downed trees and power lines.
In some places, Halloween was officially delayed until the weekend. Grotesque! Creepy!
But just when things were looking really bad, two mothers in Essex Fells figured out how to save Halloween — at least for their kids and a few dozen others.
The idea came to Patty DiFilippo and Nellie Criqui while the power was out. Their families were gathered at Criqui’s home to share a meal, powered by a generator. They made the necessary phone calls, emailed the school and spread the word on Facebook. And, by today afternoon, some 40 cars pulled into the St. Peter’s Church parking lot, trunks filled with candy. The cars were decorated with cobwebs and skeletons and scary music blasted across the lot while the kids went from vehicle to vehicle with their goodie bags.
The resourceful moms called it a "trunk-or-treat."
