There will never be a kid named Sandy ever again

Midnight Mob's home base is Nassau County Long Island mostly south shore except for Carly. Our area is about 50 minutes east of NYC. Me, Blackey & Catastrophe are currently living in Massapequa. Spydyr is from Wantagh and Carly in Syosset. We organize one show a year at home and the remainder local shows are normally charity shows, bdays or acoustic. The majority of our playing is outside of Long Island/NYC. Anyways there's always something with our annual show. The first one in 2010 went off without any problems, but 2011 and 2012 was another story. In 2011 we originally organized the show in the summer, but Hurricane Irene hit that day. Damage was really minimal. It was rescheduled around halloween and we had the only snow storm, which was completely out of season, that night. Then recently in 2012 we organized an awesome show with some of our favorite local bands and out of state bands at a local hole in the wall rock n roll bar. This show was our drummer's bday party and our EP release. People were telling us, when we were in Philly, they were coming, same as NJ and NYC. Unfortunately mother nature has subscribed to our mailing list and we received Hurricane Sandy which caused more destruction and loss that anyone could have imagined the week of our show.

As Sandy was looming, which they called a Frankenstorm, residents had mixed feelings. Every storm that has been predicted never lived up to its full potential. As a result many residents stayed in and did not evacuate, people died, people were missing, many lost all of their possessions, many were homeless, gas became scarce and electricity even scarcer.

The wind picked up and darkened early Monday 10/29/12. I lost power around 5:30 PM and the local marina's water level began rising into people's backyards. Around 9:00 PM my entire frontyard and neighbor's yards were under water from the bay. It was something that you just couldn't believe. We were watching a river sweep all sorts of stuff away, a trampoline thrown over a fence all by candlelight and hoping that we wouldn't have to retreat to the attic. We lucked out with our cars by leaving them at the local church parking lot earlier that day, but many had their car taken away from them ruined. In addition, houses were demolished from the water and house fires were occurring thoroughout the neighborhood. There's absolutely nothing you can do but just wait, watch and hope that you and people others make it out without with minimal damage. Currently, Saturday 11/3/12, I am typing this at my girlfriend's in Patchogue which is about 45 minutes east of me and was not really affected by the hurricane. My hometown still does not have power, some towns still do not have water, heat is an issue because the temperature drops at night, gas lines are 4 hours long, many stations do not have gas, many people cannot use a proper bathroom, some people are becoming violent and desperate, some people are disguised as LIPA and stealing whats left from people's houses.

In addition, to all of this Mayor Bloomberg approved the NYC Marathon to still run this Sunday 11/4/12. He stubbornly stood behind his position until late yesterday, Fri 11/2/12, most likely all of the people he is supposed to be speaking for said "Hells No!" In my personal opinion it would be massively bad idea to have this marathon. Not only is it flat out ignoring all of the cleaning and repairing that needs to be done but it is a cold reminder of everyone's very real situation. As a resident we cannot watch the marathon because we don't have electricity, we cannot enjoy it with friends because lack of gas and public transportation & make it & impossible to travel, we cannot got to the city to spectate for the previous reason and & families luckily enough to get in hotels are going to be put in positions to house some dude from Africa, Brazil or wherever! Why can't things be postponed hasn't everyone been through enough and who knows how long this will last for and how worse it can get. The way things are going if people don't get their basic necessities, that they have to pay an arm and a leg for, rioting is around the corner. The same goes for the Knicks and Giants. Why can't one week be postponed? If you need a distraction walk to the local bar, play your guitar, walk to a close friends place, read a book, write, anything and if you can't help your neighbor.

Peace!