• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Hi. I'm your new moderator.

2thdrinOR said:
Hey thanks for the invite! I would need to make it over the pass, so will watch road conditions. Sounds like it could be a cold time!
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it can be I suppose (I've only been once) but it's pretty dry regardless of the weather. but the riding is good and the people are even better.
 
Any news from Dean (Coffee)? Looks like the Atlas fire is a little SW of his place (or where he used to live anyway).

I haven't talked to him in a good while.

Hope things are OK
 
Rob578 said:
Any news from Dean (Coffee)? Looks like the Atlas fire is a little SW of his place (or where he used to live anyway).

I haven't talked to him in a good while.

Hope things are OK
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I haven't heard anything from Dean in years. I know an administrator (that isn't active on the board anymore)pretty well, so I made an appeal to them directly.
 
Rob578 said:
Any news from Dean (Coffee)? Looks like the Atlas fire is a little SW of his place (or where he used to live anyway).

I haven't talked to him in a good while.

Hope things are OK
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As of earlier today, it was right across the street. It doesn’t look good for his property.
2F1545D5-52C9-4A29-916E-F545F8557259.jpeg This is atlas peak where that fire started. This was less than 12hrs from when it started Sunday night. Since then, the fire has switched directions, and the entire hillside in this picture has burned.
 
These wild fires you have are just horrendous and so harsh on so many good folks.
What with hurricanes on the East Coast and Fires on the West Coast the weather goods are extracting a huge toll.
One brave lady on TV had lost her house in the Napa and looked the camerman in the eye and said it was not a loss but an opportunity. What a fantastic attitude, makes one feel proud of man kind and somewhat humble with your own likely attitude to such awful events.
 
ghte said:
These wild fires you have are just horrendous and so harsh on so many good folks.
What with hurricanes on the East Coast and Fires on the West Coast the weather goods are extracting a huge toll.
One brave lady on TV had lost her house in the Napa and looked the camerman in the eye and said it was not a loss but an opportunity. What a fantastic attitude, makes one feel proud of man kind and somewhat humble with your own likely attitude to such awful events.
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It’s been pretty crazy. My house has been threatened a few times, but fortunately winds have changed each time. I’ve been working 18 hour shifts. I work for the water department in Saint Helena, which is 15 miles north of napa, and we’ve had power intermittently so we’ve been maintaining generators and water pumps for the fire department in case it makes it here. We’re surounded on 3 sides by the fires. The one that has destroyed large parts of Santa Rosa has backtracked to Calistoga and now Calistoga is completely evacuated. This fire has slowly been creeping towards Saint Helena.
 
I have a friend at work who just bought a house in that area a few months back. Luckily she still has a home, but they had evac orders last week. It's sketchy at best up there. Thank goodness for our dedicated fire professionals.
 
No, it seems "threadish" :cool:. Thanks DD, things are going good.

In fact it seems like we have a couple of new mods. nice. Maybe we could convince Chod to think about moderating again, now that there are more folks to share the heavy lifting.
 
'68- hope things go well... finger x'd. I can't believe that fire is heading back east

(my buddy just sold his home off of Coffey Ln & his condo in Wikiup two years ago. he is very grateful to be in Nevada. His brother sold his house on 121 just a couple of months ago- but the map shows the fire just missed... maybe. Waters Rd. He's happy to be in Arizona. hmmmm, now I'm beginning to see a pattern. Maybe I should get out of California).

let us know about if you find anything out about Dean too.

(of course if all of CH's servers are in coffee's house- we'll know if things turn worse)

We'll keep all of you Napa Co. CH'ers in our thoughts- Sonoma Co too (hell, looks the valley of moon is taking a hit now). In fact, if you guys get a chance, check in here and give us the good news.

take care.
 
Didn't mean to hijack the thread..... but I would think a discussion of the whereabouts of the missing owner would be relevant.

I doubt the server(s) are at his house, when I was there he had some sort of long range wireless link setup since he didn't have an internet connection up there. I don't think that setup would support the Site's traffic.
 
Rob578 said:
Didn't mean to hijack the thread..... but I would think a discussion of the whereabouts of the missing owner would be relevant.

I doubt the server(s) are at his house, when I was there he had some sort of long range wireless link setup since he didn't have an internet connection up there. I don't think that setup would support the Site's traffic.
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There have been threads started about this before. No conclusions were reached in those threads either.
 
I apologize..... I actually did a search on "Coffee" and "Dean" before I ever made a post here.... this was the only thread that anyone had responded to in months.

Sorry to bother everyone.

Have a great Friday the 13th!!!
 
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