FLOODING RAINS AND HAPPY #38 TO SON-IN-LOVE

Got a rude before the alarm early awakening this morning around 6:45 as #1 son came up the drive bringing g-son up here for hubbie to take to school since d-in-love was staying home with RL this morning and son came running in the house saying we had a big fire above our shed on a power line.
I jumped up and we saw the flames in 3 spots on three different wires where a tree top had broken out in the 3 inches of heavy rain that had fallen overnight and dropped on the power lines.
Hubbie went to have a look and make sure there was no fire in the shed. I called Duke Energy to get them on their way hopefully before the line burned apart. Daughter came in with IR and she took g-son and his friend who rides with him every morning on to school.
Soon after they left our power went off so we figured the line had burned apart and settled in to do without power for probably the entire day with the rain pouring down outside.
Thankfully the power truck came shortly and went down to cut the main power off and try to get the tree cut off the lines with the help of hubbie and hubbie's chainsaw.
IR and I sat out in the sunroom the lightest room and waited.

Thankfully the fire didn't burn the line entirely apart and they were able to get our power turned back on in about an hour. The burned limbs looked really bad and the power line is obviously charred and burned but the power man said it was fine. I might call and have it re-checked when the weather clears up.

This is the tree that the top fell out off and you can see the power lines .

We have some clean up to do when the rain stops.

We had breakfast and waited for the heavy rains to slack a little to get out and get the morning feeding chores done.
As we watched a break in the rains for our area we headed up to #2 son's house to pick up some things he had for us . The road up to his house was filled with rushing water and there were several spontaneous waterfalls coming off the side of the mountain he lives on.
We left there and made it back home without any problems but we stayed on the main roads as we heard on the news that several side roads were flooding and had fallen trees in them.
We had lunch then I did some ironing . I was trying to wait out more heavy rain in case the power went out again as there was another spot on up our power line that was sparking and smoking with leaves touching it.
The power company in our area has really dropped the ball on keeping the lines cleared lately and when I call to ask them to come clear our lines they tell me I am on a rotation and they will get here when it's my turn .  We have been waiting now for several years for "our turn" !!!
I started my baking and baked 3 caramel, 2 pound and 1 pan of brownies with crossed fingers that the power would stay on.
Our pastures were flooding pretty badly but all the tall buttercups hid a lot of the flood waters.

Our flooding was nothing compared to the flooding in the south end of town where they have allowed a couple big grocery stores to fill flood plains and build on higher ground. This caused a lot of flooding for the surrounding areas today when about 6 inches of rain fell in less than 18 hours.

Some roads also collapsed with the roaring water.

Home was a good place to stay today and we were fortunate we could do that while all the rain was falling.

Thankfully about mid afternoon the rain stopped and let everything dry out a little in the mid 70's temps which felt pretty cool compared to the mid 80's we have been having. There was another almost 3 inches in the gauge for a total for here of almost 6 inches since the rains began yesterday afternoon.

We did chores early so we could go to supper with son-in-love and some more family for his 38th birthday. We went to a place across town and it was an adventure getting around all the flooded roads to get there but the food was excellent at the Flat Rock Wood Room.

IR was having trouble deciding what she wanted to order.

G-son went with us and son-in-love's mom and dad, sister, sis-in-law Kristen and 2 nieces and another nephew attended.  We had a great time and everyone enjoyed the food and fellowship.

We dropped g-son at his house and went in to check on G-daughter RL who had to make a trip to the doctor this afternoon because she is refusing to eat, drink or even talk with the blisters in her mouth.

The doctor prescribed a numbing gel for her mouth to hopefully lesson her pain so she can eat and drink something.

She is exhausted from not eating or drinking and not sleeping .

Tonight I did weekly paperwork, paid bills, watched Survivor on TV then iced cakes and got things ready for market.
#2 son and Tif had another beautiful day on the beach.

I am thankful for the blessings of this day and the protective hand of God in all the adversity of this day. Praying for RL that her mouth feels better in the morning and she gets on the road to recovery quickly.

God Bless and Good Night