Well, I have some bad news. The storms which have been pelting Southern Cal have taken something dear to me - relax, not a person, a thing.
The Santa Paula Airport, where I learned to fly years ago, and which I still fly out of now and then, has been attacked by the shifting of the Santa Clara river. You may have seen it on the news: it's only a few miles up the freeway from us, and I can't tell you how sad I am to see it close even for a time.
The airport is privately owned, publicly used. As such, they will have to come up with creative ways to get the funding to effect repairs. Also, if the river bed is not 'adjusted,' a monumental task, it could repeat this in the near future. Even if the next set of storms is minor, the river has moved in close to the airport and will keep knawing at it until the riverbed is moved or diverted.
And the water will be flowing for weeks as the huge reseviors upstream continue to release millions of gallons of water by the minute to get their levels back down to workable conditions.
