Still going in circles

Last Friday I flew out of St. Louis headed to N. Carolina. As usual I had a lay over in Atlanta. The second leg of the trip was to be just a short hop to Jacksonville, N.C. It turned into a 24 hour ordeal.
When I flew in to Atlanta it was foggy and misting rain. As anyone knows who has travel through the Atlanta airport - any kind of weather- slows or even shuts down that airport. Well I wasn't surprised when my flight showed a delay on the departure board. I wasn't flustered- yet. Another delayed showed up- ok, this time I was annoyed, but still not flustered. A third delay appeared. Now flustered entered the picture. I called my DIL for the third time and told her. I also said the weather was looking worse and I wouldn't be surprised if the airport shut down. Well it does gets worse.
To my surprise the plane I was to leave on arrived at the designated gate. Things were looking up or so I thought. The passengers deplaned. Just a few minutes to straighten up the plane and I was sure that we would board. And we did! Hurray I was finally on my way... I called my DIL and told her that I was on the plane and that departure was imminent. We sat there a while longer and sat. I could hear the high pitch whine of the engines and then all of a sudden- nothing. The plane had had a power failure--thankfully AT THE GATE! The pilot came on the loud speaker and announced that a mechanic was on the way to fix the problem. Oh yaaaAaa, I thought. How are you going to fix no power???
There were several attempts at it. The engines would rive up and then die. I was thinking to myself I hope they don't 'fix' the problem. I really didn't want to be in the air in that crate. It wasn't long and the pilot announced "well folks, this bird isn't flying anywhere today." With that we all de-planed. Back in the gate area the announcement was that they were going to find us another plane. Another phone call to my DIL to update my predicament. Shortly,another announcement was made saying that Flight #1580 to Jacksonville, NC was cancelled. Please proceed to Gate D24 for re-routing.....