Yeah. Course with my present setup, I get a prolonged outage because I have to manually (with a script) turn-on the bias tees after a power outage. I could at least make that turn-on into a service to improve things.
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For many of us, this is a hobby and as such we may get a little irrational and paranoid about making things work the best they can. If you have updated software, improved your dongle, antenna, cables, pi, or even cooling aspects, you are infected too. Enjoy making your systems the best you can and have fun while doing it. Money can be replaced, personal goals achieved are worthwhile. Enjoy every moment. Gene
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I agree 100% with all you wrote. The “irrational and paranoid” part is what worried me in the past, not the money.
There have been a few times in the past I wished I had stopped earlier. 
“If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.”
― Groucho Marx
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I have a 1 kw APC battery backup that handles 8 RPi’s, router and internet cable connection. If the cable goes down (rare), it switches to a cellular connection. There is enough power for a couple of hours. If the outage is more severe, it gives me time to start my 14 kw gas generator. I’m in Clearwater, Florida where power outages are frequent. I’ve had 2 outages today plus numerous “flickers” thanks to TS Debby.
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For sure every feed is lost during the downtime. However the stats are not getting lost if the power and the feed returns in less than 24 hours.
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During last couple of years, several times my feed has broken for more than 24 hrs. As a result my streak has broken several times, but I don’t care. For things which are not really important in life, my approach is “don’t worry be happy” 
. However a lot of feeders do consider it very important to avoid breaking the streak. Well everyone has his own preferences.
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Don’t worry a whole lot about an ISP going down with a power outage. I worked for one and we had backup power facilities that would blow your mind. Giant auto-run diesels for the AC side and huge DC battery banks for the DC side of the house. You never say never but they are well provisioned. Protect your router and ethernet switching power and you are likely to weather the storm.
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Even if your ISP goes down, there are alternates. IMO most cell phones can have a Wi-Fi hotspot enabled to connect to the internet via their cellular provider. T-Mobile does. I connected to T-Mobile for 3 hours last Sunday at no cost when TS Debby took down Spectrum’s cable network. We received 21 inches of rain along with 70 mph wind.
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I was wondering how you were doing there on the coast with this latest storm. Sounds like it was serious enough. Hope you got through with no physical damage to the property or the family.
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Thanks for your concern. We came through both days without any damage though a lot of palm fronds were ripped away. That made cleanup easy. There was some flooding from the golf course, but it didn’t threaten our house. We’ve lived in Clearwater for 60 years so we are prepared for tropical weather.
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60 years is some serious roots. Some casual cleanup is the best result. Sounds like you have some high ground relative to storm water. 25 years worth of storm experience here at our place. Continued good fortune for you there going forward into the fall. Hope November brings us some cool relief and a better world.
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