About 5:45 pm. It's PEPCO turf, but the line service some BGE territory in Howard and Baltimore Counties. It's entirely possible the flickering was the smart grid technology struggling to adjust to power demands so rapidly.
Yes. There's nothing worse than seeing zonal flow and Pacific puke for weeks on end as we enter December and you realize in the back of your head "well, there's always next year".
I think there might have been a temperature inversion last night. Noticed the valleys were colder than the hilltops by a good 10 - 15 degrees driving into work this morning.