Woodlands, Texas Real Estate Blog

This has certainly been an unusual summer in The Woodlands and Texas as far as the weather goes. We usually have our rainy month of May and then the sun comes out and it’s hot, hot, hot until September. This summer though we have had many rainy days throughout June and July. Which is nice because it helps keep the temp down but we are lucky here because we haven’t had the flooding like they’ve had in Central Texas. I have a lot of people contact me and ask if we flood in The Woodlands. We do not. Even during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 when half of Houston was under water, we were high and dry. When we get an extremely strong downpour there may be a little water standing in a couple of streets, but it recedes quickly and I’ve never heard of any homes getting water in them. Part of that is because we have so many retention ponds and drainage systems in place that we are well protected. When George Mitchell designed the master plan for The Woodlands back in the 1970s he did a great job of looking ahead to the time when The Woodlands would be built out and he planned back then for an infrastructure that could handle all the rain we can get here in a short amount of time.