My home internet service went down about 10 hours ago and hasn’t been restored yet. They promised a time that already passed and haven’t given me a new estimate. As a result, my node is offline and unable to sync. 

Imagine traveling to another country and the only funds available to you are on your node at home, and it’s unreachable. This is one of those use cases for keeping some spending money on either custodial or non-custodial mobile Lightning wallets. Sometimes you have to make trade-offs for convenience.