GottaDEAL 2025 Prize Club Discussion Thread

[cllehto]

19 hours ago, bodotdot said:

It's April...that wonderful month when the soft-serve cones return from their winter hibernation.  

Wonderful time of the year!

 

[len_mullen]

April, bloody April.  April is always a busy month for me.  Because I was born in April, I must inspect and register my vehicles.  Because I drive cars until no one can, this is usually an adventure.  April is also the month Uncle Sam demands his pound of flesh.  This year was just a little bit worse because our regulator was on the premises last week and I had to deal with a recall on one of my vehicles that would necessarily delay its inspection by a week.

 

Assessment went well. recall was uneventful, and I finished my taxes this morning.  So, on April 5, I am done except for two inspections and a visit to the tax collector's office.  I rewarded myself for this with a bloody mary, two slices of reheated pizza, Top Gun, and a nap.

 

Having checked in here, I am unofficially off the clock.

 

Happy Shopping!

[HomeinKS]

Hoping for some more April showers here.  

[Kanyon71]

It’s April and it’s been showering all day here. Taxes are done except the painful part of sending them even more money. 
 

Not looking forward to work tomorrow. Think I need a couple of weeks off with nothing to do. 

[bluebear]

We're having a rainy day today and tomorrow, with the potential for severe weather.   Again.

We had a tornado in our county a few miles from here on Monday, and scary weather a couple weeks before that.  I'm about over it!

Glad for the actual rain though.

 

This week is our spring break.  We have a list of things we want to do.  We bought 30 bags of mulch today, and will likely get at least 30 more.  Ugh.  

[HanShotFirst]

Well, I just lived through destructive tornadoes and massive flash flooding the last 4 days here in TN.  The local meteorologists were on air for 18+ hours non-stop on Wednesday and Saturday covering the weather.  It was said that the NWS out of Memphis issued over 100 tornado warnings last week.  Unbelievable weather event that I don’t want to have endure again.  My small hometown was hit by a deadly tornado 2 years ago, almost to the day, and another tornado hit in the night Friday/Saturday.  There was damage but thankfully it was not massive and not deadly like 2 years ago.  I am weather weary for sure.   Otherwise Happy Spring to everyone! 

[bluebear]

1 hour ago, HanShotFirst said:

Well, I just lived through destructive tornadoes and massive flash flooding the last 4 days here in TN.  The local meteorologists were on air for 18+ hours non-stop on Wednesday and Saturday covering the weather.  It was said that the NWS out of Memphis issued over 100 tornado warnings last week.  Unbelievable weather event that I don’t want to have endure again.  My small hometown was hit by a deadly tornado 2 years ago, almost to the day, and another tornado hit in the night Friday/Saturday.  There was damage but thankfully it was not massive and not deadly like 2 years ago.  I am weather weary for sure.   Otherwise Happy Spring to everyone! 

Oh gracious how scary!  Glad you are okay.

 

We had another tornado hit our county this morning...  2 Mondays in a row now.  

[rockpzazz]

On 4/7/2025 at 7:05 PM, HanShotFirst said:

Well, I just lived through destructive tornadoes and massive flash flooding the last 4 days here in TN.  The local meteorologists were on air for 18+ hours non-stop on Wednesday and Saturday covering the weather.  It was said that the NWS out of Memphis issued over 100 tornado warnings last week.  Unbelievable weather event that I don’t want to have endure again.  My small hometown was hit by a deadly tornado 2 years ago, almost to the day, and another tornado hit in the night Friday/Saturday.  There was damage but thankfully it was not massive and not deadly like 2 years ago.  I am weather weary for sure.   Otherwise Happy Spring to everyone! 

 

I feel you.  On April 2nd, my town of under 800 was hit with an EF-2 tornado.  While it looked absolutely horrible with a mobile home that was just placed isn't even there anymore.  Incredibly, there were no injuries or deaths despite the tornado warning going out after it had passed, the power going out 2 minutes before the tornado touched down, which caused the town siren to not activate (it was electrical powered from the 1940s and was set to be replaced next month).  It was one of the earliest ones (around 8:30 AM) to hit the area possibly since the 1960s and the largest to possibly hit the county in 30 years.  If I had to guess it passed around 500-1000 yards from my front door.  If it didn't turn the first time, it would have went through the town.  If it didn't turn the second time, it would have destroyed my uncle's mobile home (with him and my aunt inside).  I think the timing helps prevent injuries since most of the kids were at school (who didn't even suffer a power outage), and a lot of adults on their way to work 15-25 minutes away.  I have been near 2-3 tornadoes in my life, another which was a wind storm (I still believe it was a tornado) but this one was the worst.  Usually I have a sense for bad weather, but I didn't feel like this one would do anything.  Boy was I wrong.  At least the community is safe and a cleanup effort was made today to help clean the fields and places littered with debris.  I hope this isn't a sign of things to come this season.  The week before wasn't much better with a water main break causing us to go 2-3 days with little to no water.  So hopefully the rest of April and the year gets better.

[HomeinKS]

I'm sorry to hear of all the weather related difficulties.  Take care out there!

[setlok73]

Got to spend my Granddaughters 6th birthday with her.  Such a blessing!!!

[stacya]

Happy April! My luger and I are back in the swing of things since coming back from Salt Lake City last month. Kendall's second race there was the Norton Jr. National Championships, for sliders age 14 to 21. Kendall is one of the youngest on the team (she is currently 15), and raced against her teammates, as well as the athletes on the next level up, the Jr. National Team, where they are more experienced sliders, in addition to being older and bigger. Kendall managed a 6th place finish out of 17 athletes. The athletes ahead of her, except for 1, were all on the next level team, so out of those on her team, she placed 2nd. She finished 3rd overall for the season, so when she returns to Lake Placid for the summer (she will be training with the next level team for the entire summer), she has another medal waiting for her. The official team list gets released on May 1, though we already know what her placement will be, but we aren't allowed to discuss it openly until the list comes out. Today's video is of Kendall sliding into the finish on the 2002 (and 2034) Olympic track!