Flash floods in Houston, Texas that killed at least eight people caused the cancellation and delay of several hundreds flights on April 18.
"This is a life-threatening emergency," the city said on an emergency website. "Houston residents should avoid travel at all costs today."
George Bush Intercontinental Airport cancelled over 300 flights and William P. Hobby Airport canceled 136.
Flood damaged at least five Houston airports, including: David Wayne Hooks Memorial, Dan Jones International, Weiser Air Park, Sugar Land Regional and Sport Flyers.
AOPA Texas You Can Fly Ambassador Pat Brown was in Houston during the storm and surveyed the damage to GA airports along the west side of the city in a Cessna 182.
Brown told AOPA:
"At Weiser Airpark 'you can see a big puddle of water there crossing the runway. Houses were under water in vicinity of Weiser and Dan Jones International,' Brown said.
At Hooks Memorial airport, a major GA reliever, 'it was hard for me to tell how much water was in the hangars but it’s certainly all over the taxiways,' he said.
The facility has two parallel runways with a taxiway between them and a separate water runway for seaplane operations. 'All of it’s flooded,' said Brown."
