@Elderberry @Cyber LibertyI was going to move to Conroe to be closer to doctors. I was living in Cape Royale, Coldspring, Texas, in San Jacinto County next to Montgomery County. In Coldspring, we had one elderly family type doctor and that was it.
I got a real estate agent in Conroe to help me determine the best place for me to live there. We went to the area of Lake Conroe; those are mainly private developments next to the river and the houses are upscale houses. There were also some "you buy it, own it", condominiums. I could afford to pay cash for a condo but realized the Homeowners Assoc., could raise your monthly POA fee to any amount they wanted and they were wealthy. I didn't buy there. Some of those houses flooded in Harvey Hurricane.
I had a Real Estate Broker's state license. My advice to homeowners was: Don't buy a house when the subdivision has any form of water in the title. Some examples are: "River Plantation" (in Conroe, those houses flooded in hurricane Harvey.), "Brook Haven", "Lakeside", etc. If you live near water, it wants to go where you are. Be sure your house is high enough not to be flooded if massive water can get in that area.
I still have a house in Conroe, and it did not flood during Harvey; I knew the insurance agent who insured my house. When I bought it, he said I did not need flood insurance due to it being in the 100 yr. floodplain. After Harvey, I thought the floodplain number would change, and I did buy flood insurance.
Kingwood:
The
West Fork of the San Jacinto River feeds water to make Conroe Lake and that water meets up with the
East Fork of the San Jacinto River which travels through Coldspring/San Jacinto County. That massive amount of water goes through Kingwood on its way to the Houston Ship Channel where chemical plants use that fresh water to make various chemicals from oil refining plants there. Kingwood is going to flood every time the San Jacinto River receives huge amounts of rain.
Story: When I lived in San Jacinto County, 9/11 happened. Then, I saw military helicopters going overhead heading to somewhere. Later, I found it was the military going to the dam of the San Jacinto River to protect it. That is how important the water is to get to the Houston ship channel - the oil refining plants there and onward south to other oil refining plants. If that water doesn't get there, oil refining, as in gasoline, other products made from oil, stops. I found these military helicopters are stationed in Montgomery County.