Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:04:15 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.168.182] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.8) with SMTP id 624039 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:59:53 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.163.168.182; envelope-from=n98pb@sbcglobal.net Received: from unknown (HELO homey0nxyfmouy) (n98pb@sbcglobal.net@68.123.61.233 with login) by smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2005 01:59:22 -0000 From: "Pat and Sue Brunner" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: Corona Airport X-Original-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:59:43 -0800 X-Original-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 For all those who have come to Corona Airport (AJO) for the cheap fuel and Meta's cooking, please check out www.kcal9.com and click on Video on the left. Scroll down, hit MORE VIDEOS and continue doing this for a few pages until you come to January 11, "Rising Waters Engulf Corona Airport." Sit back and be amazed. We are now nearly 3 weeks post-flood and still digging out from the mud. Airport remains closed, except to departing traffic from 1-4 daily. We have been advised by our mayor to "come back after the rainy season." All the businesses on the field, aviation related, are devastated. The west end of the field was 12 foot under water. Business owners (who coincidentally have the ability and tools to tow aircraft) helped move aircraft to the city streets (again, view the video) and didn't get their equipment out. As one old-timer business put it at a city open-mike meeting regarding the Prado Dam, "whatever is in the water eats right through steel." We had no water, sewer or electricity for two weeks, and one section of the airport is in its third week with no electricity. If you care to donate to our businesses, tax-deductible, send any amount (even a few bucks times lots of folks adds up) to Corona Pilots' Association, PO Box 1212, Corona, CA 92878-1212. I will send you a receipt for your files. Pass the word to any folks you know who have too much money and want to help the airport stay afloat. Believe me, with the machinery and equipment, not to mention all the parts and supplies normally found in cylinder shops and avionics places, we could use it. Thanks for letting me vent frustration at having been at the airport since January 9th trying to help out and watching the businesses layoff their employees. Susan Brunner N98PB IVP