HOUSTON -- The Woodland Trails neighborhood is fast becoming nothing but woods as residents are moving out and their homes torn down.

They are moving because they are taking advantage of the Harris County Flood Control District's latest buyout plan. The flood control district offered the buyouts because almost all of Woodland Trails sits within a flood plain.

“If they buyout program hadn't (had) happened, we'd probably just be sitting here,” said Buffy Scott, one of the dozens of residents who are moving to higher ground.

Saul Duran also decided it was best to move after years of waiting for the waters to rise during major storms.

“I'm tired of that, yes. I don't want to have to have that in the back of my (mind),” said Duran.

Funding for the buyouts comes from the federal government and the flood control district said it plans to keep applying for grants.

“For the past several years, we've been fortunate that every time we've applied for funding from the federal government and from (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), we've received it,” said Harris County Flood Control spokeswoman Heather Saucier.

That includes $8 million after Hurricane Rita in 2005 and another $4 million within the last several weeks.

More money is likely on the way.

By the numbers it translates into more lonely curbside addresses, where instead of a house, there is just open space. It is enough to make a mailman wonder.

“Makes me about to lose my job,” joked postal carrier Herb Jones, who delivers parcels in the Woodland Trails neighborhood.