• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Any of our friends in Iceland see this?

saw it on the news this AM and i mean WOW. just freakin nuts!

WTH ya gonna do when a GLACIER MELTS?

RUN FOREST, RRRRUUUUN!!! :eek:
 
I love that Big Picture site, go there a lot. Interesting stuff from around the world. Haiti pictures were real hard to look at.
 
Looks like the locals are going on a marshmellow roasting binge. :cheers:


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Motosportz;90307 said:
I love that Big Picture site, go there a lot. Interesting stuff from around the world. Haiti pictures were real hard to look at.
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Yeah, they really have some great photos. They had a bunch of great photos of the Dakar Ralley, too.

Thanks for posting the link :thumbsup:



WoodsChick
 
Great pictures.
I can't believed all flights are canceled in the UK just from the cloud of smoke. :eek:
 
Airborne ash particulates are devastating to turbine engines. Physical erosion of the the compressor and turbine sections occurs very rapidly which can result in catastrophic failure or a severe loss of efficiency. Not something airlines need with the troubles they already have economically. Worst case is a crash from engine failure.
 
HuskyDude;90425 said:
Great pictures.
I can't believed all flights are canceled in the UK just from the cloud of smoke. :eek:
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Tell me about it! I'm surprised the trains are still running. It's quite remarkable that the electricity hasn't been cut off too.

Heh, I guess I'd better clean my air filter.
 
They have to cancel air flights in cases like this, because as Ioneater posted; the ash is catastrophic to jet engines & sandblasts the windshields but also because, unlike thunderclouds etc., they can't pick it up on radar, therefore pilots can't just fly around it, because they don't know where exactly it will be at any given moment.

There was a great episode of 'Mayday' which a 747? heading to Australia (IIRC) flew thru an ash cloud, lost all 4 engines and came within a few minutes of crashing before some of the engines restarted. The windshields were essentially sandblasted opaque, leaving the pilots flying blind.
 
Mother nature sure can be devestaing and also she can sometimes be beautiful at the same time.
 
Slowpoke;90539 said:
There was a great episode of 'Mayday' which a 747? heading to Australia (IIRC) flew thru an ash cloud, lost all 4 engines and came within a few minutes of crashing before some of the engines restarted. The windshields were essentially sandblasted opaque, leaving the pilots flying blind.
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I know, I'm late to the party. ;) I had to post up on this as I was reading what you said and I remembered the story of that flight. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine! :shocked:

It happened in 1982. It was British Airways Flight #9. Here is a link to the story (video) done by National Geographic. http://aviationknowledge.wikidot.com/asi:volcanic-dust
 
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