Sunday, December 16, 2012

Shore Residents Return Home to Damage, Destruction | Essentials

Shore Residents Return Home to Damage, Destruction

Wall Mural of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA (1 of 2)
Wall Mural of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA (1 of 2) by Tony Fischer Photography
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His second was that life as he knew it had just been turned upside down — along with his refrigerator, freezer, and his kitchen and dining room furniture. "Now it's a matter of figuring out whether I have anything left," he said Thursday, as he scraped a thick layer of mud from his home. Similar scenes were playing out up and down the Jersey Shore as many residents were allowed back into their neighborhoods for the first time since Hurricane Sandy hit Monday night. Some were relieved to find only minor damage; others were wiped out. "A lot of tears are being shed today," said Dennis Cucci, whose home near the ocean in Point Pleasant Beach sustained heavy damage. "It's absolutely mind-boggling. "The worst part is the mental damage from not knowing what comes next," he said. "We're ready to start doing something, but what? What do you do first?

People:

Goldberg

Overall Sentiment: -0.122083

Relevance: 0.598958

SentimentQuote
0"I don't see where I have much choice," he said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Dennis Cucci

Overall Sentiment: 0.141309

Relevance: 0.526867

SentimentQuote
-0.237196"A lot of tears are being shed today," said Dennis Cucci, ...
-0.252767"It's absolutely mind-boggling. "The worst part is the mental damage from not knowing what comes next," he said. ...
0.387529"We're running out of clean clothes," Cucci said. ...
0.155808"We're running out of clean clothes," Cucci said. "This is the last pair of dry shoes I have. It took the storm two days to wreck all this, and it's going to take well over a year to recover from it."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.053374
  • Mean: 0.0133435
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Barbara Montemarano

Overall Sentiment: -0.477804

Relevance: 0.400104

SentimentQuote
-0.36722"It's just sadness," she said. ...
-0.066586"It's just sadness," she said. "It looks like a bomb went off here. There's almost nobody here; it looks like tumbleweeds are rolling down the street."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.433806
  • Mean: -0.216903
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Martell

Overall Sentiment: -0.233799

Relevance: 0.323506

Robert

Overall Sentiment: 0.132772

Relevance: 0.276991

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:

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Sandy

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.387762

GeographicFeature: Point Pleasant Beach

Overall Sentiment: 0.0639192

Relevance: 0.825101

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