GARY HILTON wrote:
Dang! I knew I should have hung around Chino another day! Would loved to have photo'd this bird. I did get to see Tony use Pacific Princess to blow the dust and dirt back out of the hanger at Aero Trader Thursday, must have been 1/4" deep from the wind storm..
The winds have always been bad but with the dairies leaving and the construction going on the dirt thing seems so much worse than 12 years ago when I worked there.
The dairies and drainage were the worse things at the airport back then. Some of the roads were also used for flood control. With many square miles of dairy feed lots around Chino Airport it lead to problems with major rain storms.
(I drove a Jeep CJ just for this reason mind you.)
The runoff was brown and smelled really bad. (Think Cows) Several intersections would flood with brown water 18" - 24" deep. Cars would stall and people would have to get out of there cars. YUCKY!!
One time Pacific Fighters Hangar flooded with a couple of inches of this same water. That was a fun time.
Merrill Ave in front of the airport had a 8' deep by 8' wide ditch on the other side along the road. When the storms were bad it would fill to the road bed. People who had to fight the traffic and the flooded roads woould look at the long line of cars on Merrill. See what they thought was minor flloding in the "R/H turn lane" and think they could walk on water or at least drive on it. They would try what they thought was the flooded turn lane to get up to the intersection but find it a bottomless pit instead. You would drive by and see bumper, taillights and the back of the trunk sticking out of the water.
With my Jeep you would still smell the cow water smell into July everytime you started the motor.
Rich
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Glad at lest one flew the coupe. 
