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