Is this sentence correct?

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Dubai Airport said it was facing "very challenging conditions" on Wednesday. It advised passengers not to turn up as runways were inundated with water.

Just sitting in a restaurant waiting for some food to arrive and was reading the news headlines.

Does the second sentence in the passage above make sense?

Are you questioning the use of inundated? One of its synonyms is 'flooded', so it does make sense.

Or are you questioning the use if 'it' for Dubai airport?

'With water' is redundant. The runways are inundated.

makes sense to me

No, it needs water. You can be inundated with other things. Though it would depend on what came before it.
Makes complete sense to me. What are you confused by OP?

Yes I was - I thought it sounded strange. Inundated suggested a numerical amount to me, but I bow to your knowledge

I would not have use the word inundated here, but I don't think it is necessarily wrong.

It looks OK to me. What would you change? I agree with @Bullshots that 'with water' is redundant but perhaps helpful for people who don't know what inundated means. (Latin: unda = wave)
Using 'it' for Dubai Airport is also correct but many British speakers would switch to 'they'.

It was probably written by someone with English as a second language, so it's pretty impressive that they've used that word imo.

But I would just have said that it was flooded.

I think the "with water" was necessary, due to the two meanings of inundated. It could have meant overwhelmed with passengers or flooded.

I'd take inundated to mean overwhelmed so I think it reads correctly.

Yes it does make total sense. 'Inundate' literally means flood, even though we usually use it to mean 'overwhelm'. It comes from Latin and is related to the word for a wave In French the word for a flood is 'une inondation'.

I think "with water" is superfluous, but English isn't their first language so they are forgiven.

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It was probably written by someone with English as a second language, so it's pretty impressive that they've used that word imo.

Possibly, although it's more likely that 'inundated' is more recognisable to them, if their language is a non-Germanic one.

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I really thought inundated could only be used with something that could be quantified in numbers if that makes sense, such as inundated with phone calls.

Inundate literally means flood, in fact in Spanish the word for flood is 'inundación'

Just to be pedantic that is in Oman, not Dubai. I believe it is one in UAE. Not that it matters.

I've been caught up in flooding there (not on this scale) and the volume of water is terrifying as it hits hard, dry grounds and the wadis cannot cope.

Back to the point, the sentence reads fine to me.

It is the same storm. And it is just the number found so far. And there is a lot more to come

No, it needs water. You can be inundated with other things.

One specific definition of inundate is to flood.

I did too, I didn’t realise it meant flooded. I wonder how many posters googled it before responding 😆

The fact that it means flooded is kind of irrelevant to the addition of 'with water'.

It could have been inundated with aeroplanes that had been diverted from other airports. The addition of 'with water' aids clarity. Imo.

did too, I didn’t realise it meant flooded. I wonder how many posters googled it before responding 😆

Not me. I'm a languages teacher . It's basically the same word in two of the three languages I teach, plus in Latin which I studied at school!

Actually it's a funny word when I think about it. I kind of expect the opposite to be 'undated' A bit like being overwhelmed or underwhelmed but never just whelmed. I had no idea it actually meant flooded!