Why did my house lights flicker when I was using kitchen appliances?
It turned out not to be an overload, but a bad leg coming into the meter box. Apparently, with all the rain, water had seeped into the underground box (which eventually connects into the meter box), causing arcing. So one leg was 120, the other 20; half the house wasn’t getting power. Being a first-time homeowner, it never occurred to me to check the meter box. I unnecessarily hired an electrician to diagnose a problem that was the power company’s responsibility. The power company repairman told me that if the meter is blank or the numbers aren’t moving, then that’s the indicator it’s on the power company side. I feel the electrician should have noticed that before he opened up the meter and charged a diagnostic fee.