Update 10:25 PM: Back online. It's going to take a bit for the instance to catch up from being down for almost 12 hours, but more instances seem to be reporting in /catching up except Lemmy World. Federation stats say next retry is 2025-02-17 06:45 AM. Not sure if there's anything I can do to kick that into gear sooner, and once it does start catching up, it'll probably take ~8 hours to get back in sync.
Apologies for the massive downtime (10 hours is "massive" by my standards). Got 2 more inches of rain on top of a week of rain which was on top of 3 inches of rain last week. Mudslides, rockslides, and flooding incidents were all over the place today plus some trees that uprooted. Not sure which of those was responsible for my outage, but could have been any or all.
On-prem, thanks to a clogged storm drain, my generator ended up half-submerged in water. Haven't had a chance to inspect it, but it's probably going to need repairs and is down for the count until then. :(
In other fun on-prem news, my 48v 1000W sine wave inverter bit the dust when I tried to press it into service today, so I no longer have that available to extend the UPS runtime. Had that not died, I probably could have ridden out this outage, or at least most of it.
If by chance I do get a tax refund this year, I already know what it's earmarked for.
Original Announcement:
Running on UPS, generator partially under water. Downtime inevitable. No ETA