Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Sandy Flattens Houses in NYC's Famed Coney Island | Reduction

Posted by

Sandy Flattens Houses in NYC's Famed Coney Island

Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest (w/video)
Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest (w/video) by Tony Fischer Photography
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

It still stood Tuesday, but to get inside he had to climb over a mess of squashed vehicles, three cars and two SUVs. Inside, 3 feet of water filled his home, but Nier and his wife were safe on the second floor so he was in good spirits. "Where am I gonna go?" he asked. "I got three dogs. It was just a surge, but I didn't think it was gonna be like this." Sandy wreaked havoc in Coney Island, a place better known for hot-dog eating contests than natural disasters. But the superstorm turned houses into piles of boards and bricks, their foundations visible and water still spouting from pipes. Many houses along the water were either completely washed away or leveled. No deaths or injuries were reported. Ocean Parkway, a six-lane thoroughfare leading to southern Brooklyn, was flooded up to 5 feet overnight.

People:

Danielle DeAngelis

Overall Sentiment: 0.116832

Relevance: 0.466937

SentimentQuote
0.0620117"The whole back of the house you can see right through, if you look from the front door, you can see the ocean," DeAngelis said. ...
0.371346"We found my in-laws wedding album from Italy two blocks down, but luckily we found it," DeAngelis said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.4333577
  • Mean: 0.21667885
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.15975

Relevance: 0.350973

Mordechai Deutscher

Overall Sentiment: 0.312948

Relevance: 0.337947

SentimentQuote
0.231796"Everything was fine and dandy yesterday until high tide," Deutscher said. ...
0.158551"Everything was fine and dandy yesterday until high tide," Deutscher said. "All of a sudden within five minutes it was like a tsunami. It just shot up from the ocean, it came from the bay and they met."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.390347
  • Mean: 0.1951735
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Nier

Overall Sentiment: 0.419312

Relevance: 0.312227

Carlo Muraco

Overall Sentiment: -0.726756

Relevance: 0.281352

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

GeographicFeature: Coney Island

Overall Sentiment: -0.145429

Relevance: 0.902333

City: Brooklyn

Overall Sentiment: -0.0410474

Relevance: 0.30772

Disambiguation: GovernmentalJurisdiction | PlaceWithNeighborhoodsReferences:
URL Header Info
at
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)