Wow. Well we’ve been offline for a while- literally- we just got our internet back. Hurricane Sandy hit New York harder than any of us were expecting. We count ourselves lucky, even though our building was indeed flooded with over 4 feet of water. We were evacuated (luckily we heeded the warning) and couldn’t even get back to our neighborhood for 5 days- and our power was out for over a week. 

This is a picture of the view from our lobby right before water started pouring over the flood gates, taken by a friend who stayed behind. Crazy, right? 

And yet here we are, back home safe and sound with power and internet and that’s a lot more than some people can say. The Rockaways, Breezy Point- even the building right across from ours which the residents have been told won’t be inhabitable for 6 months. 

So today we’re playing a benefit concert out in Queens organized by Sunnyside Cares (please visit our show calendar for details), and we’re working on a fundraiser of our own. Believe it or not, we already had a song in the works called… wait for it… wait for it… Hurricane. Neeley wrote it for friends in North Carolina who had a tree fall on their house last year, and we already had it partly recorded when the storm hit. 

So stay tuned- once it’s finished we’ll be offering up all the proceeds from the download to hurricane victims. And in the meantime, give your loved ones a hug and take some time out of your day to give a little pre-Thanksgiving thanks for the roof over your head and the comforts of home.