It's primarily an event site, or a central meeting place like Calvin said, when the world blows up and the BOOB is all that's left.
Makes me wonder what ever happened to the west coast guys who met annually for a couple of years in the pacific northwest. No activity there in a long time. We've had about 3 meets for PA/MD since the first of the year in discussion there, and the annual IDI Weekend always gets a lot of traffic in the final month. There is also a nice help registry there if you ever need to find a friend, or are willing to help someone, you might want to sign up and register. The first time posting password is BOOB.