Most likely as winter gets closer, or snow is in their forecest, they will drift back in. Vecchio1 (Lou) will come back too. Then again, you never know, they may still be reading, just not posting. Steveair just posted today in the Chevy Truck Forum. The same thing happens every year, as the lawn care and other business winds down, people change their focus back to snow plowing and pop up here.
~Chuck