POWER OUTAGE AND 1998 JUNE BASEBALL

Today started very very early and very very badly !!!!
About 3am hubbie woke me up and said see what all the pings on your phone say because our power is out.
In the darkness and trying to focus from being waken out of a peaceful sleep I finally saw that all the pings were indeed from Duke Energy saying there was a power outage in our area but they expected to have it fixed by 7am.
I have notifications from our power company set up on my phone because of all the power problems we have living where we do.
I tried to get back to sleep but it took a long time to ever get the questions about what happened and where the power problem was out of my mind.
Once again at 6am I was awakened by the pinging sound of my phone and when I looked at it this time it said the time for our power to come back on was changed to  8pm tonight !!!
Now I surely couldn't go back to sleep thinking about all the food in my freezers .
Hubbie was having the same sleepless night so finally at 7am we both decided we would get up and get ready in the dark and get to market where there was power.
Daughter called and said she didn't have any power either and she lives on the edge of town. #1 son who was out of power also called and said he had to drive almost all the way into town to find a place with power to get a cup of coffee on his way to work. He said Howard Gap road was closed and he could see a power pole across the road.
Thankful for the info so we knew to take back roads to town as our regular route is Howard Gap road.
It wasn't much fun getting ready to go anywhere without lights or water but we did it and headed to market.
Daughter and IR were already there and after we got set up hubbie went out to get us some breakfast.
Each time one of these power outages happen I'm always amazed at how dependent we are on the power grid .
And it is amazing how much appreciated a flushing toilet and running water are !!!
Business was slow at first at market especially since we were there shortly after 8am but we ended up having a good day . I had a total of 9 cakes on order so that was a good days sales  before I got there but I sold very well off the table as well.
All our neighbors were out of power as well as us and we kept trying to find out exactly what happen but all we managed to find out was that a pole fell that had a bunch of high voltage lines on it and the entire mass of wires and pole caught on fire . Found no info on why the pole fell.
Hubbie stayed at market and helped with IR all day until about 1:30 when we decided he should go on as he had several stops to make including a stop at the eye doctor to pick up his new glasses along with the routine stops. I had to go to the bank and PO so we would meet at home and check our freezers in case we needed to hook up the generator and run them awhile.
I have cups of ice with quarters setting on top of the ice to check the amount of thawing things do in all the freezers.
Thankfully the ice was still in tact in the cups and in only one freezer on top of the extra frig in the basement the things were even getting soft.
We got the Honda unloaded and then decided to make a trip to Walmart to get my baking supplies for tomorrow since we couldn't do anything else.
Thankfully it was cloudy and rainy all morning leaving only 3/10ths inch in the gauge but keeping it cool so that our house was still amazingly cool even without the air conditioning.
Just as we were heading out the door the power came back on at 3:30.
We went ahead and made our trip to Walmart where all the cooling counters were emptied out with signs on them that there was a power outage. I guess they must have coolers in the back that have generators to keep them cool.
Although I won't be buying any cool stuff or meat from any of the stores that were affected by this outage for awhile just to be on the safe side.
We got back home and things were back to normal thankfully.
We watched the news and had a snack supper then got chores done.
Daughter called and said half her apartment still didn't have any power so son-in-love came after extension cords . He said they called maintenance and the recording said they were working on the problem but had no idea when it would be fixed. Thankfully the air conditioning and all the kitchen and hot water were in the half that is working.
Re brought a lone little chick over here tonight to put in the box with my Silkie chicks to get bigger before she puts it in with her hens. She had given a friend a dozen eggs to hatch in their incubator and only this one egg hatched.
G-son is having a wonderful time at church camp.

Since picture taking was not a priority for me today this is a good time to get June 1998 decade pics on here. Back in that year we were traveling with #2 son and his all star baseball team. This year if my memory serves me correctly these game were played in Red Cross ,NC.
#2 son hitting a homerun...…

On base after another hit.

Walking to his shortstop field position.

Game winning celebration.

These were fun busy summers and we made some really great memories traveling with this group of boys and their families.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and humbled by the reminder of what a blessed life we live.

God Bless and Good Night