So I wake up Sunday morning to a house full of light fixtures that are dim or flickering, fans not starting up, stove and microwave both just humming and displays blinking on and off. Seems like half the rooms and outlets are fine and the other half are acting possessed by the evil spirits. :-)
I start checking outlets and am getting weird readings. Some are
80volts, some are 108, 112, 122, some are 80 one minute, and 112 the next. So I open up the breaker box and start taking measurements. Same thing in the box, but seems to be limited to one pole. I bridge the main shut-off poles and get really strange reading like 10 volts, when it should be 220.Next, I go out to check the meter and there's no display (digital). Ok, time to call the power company.
They come out and start checking everything. A couple hours later and some digging in the front yard.... Turns out a tree root had grown around one of the hot legs and choked it out until it shorted to the root and grounded itself out. I have the root, it's all burnt up where it was around the electric line.
I'm kind of relieved because I had been having all sorts of weird electrical issues the past several months and this explains ALL of it.