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Frustration Mounts Over Lingering Power Outages | Essentials

Frustration Mounts Over Lingering Power Outages

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Vincent Pina finally saw a couple of utility trucks coming down his street Thursday and started to wave in anticipation. But they just cruised past his house and kept on going. He hung his head in resignation. "The thing that gets me the most is that there is no flood damage. I don't have any branches down. I have no wires down," said the Long Islander, who put a hand-painted sign out front that read: "Still No Power." So why, he wondered, was it taking so long to get electricity? A week and a half after Superstorm Sandy slammed the coast and inflicted tens of billions of dollars in damage, hundreds of thousands of customers in New York and New Jersey are still waiting for the electricity to come back on, and lots of cold and tired people are losing patience.

People:

Vincent Pina

Overall Sentiment: -0.136011

Relevance: 0.513168

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.221542

Relevance: 0.462891

Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Overall Sentiment: -0.112593

Relevance: 0.45979

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John Monticello

Overall Sentiment: 0.0695342

Relevance: 0.303637

SentimentQuote
-0.329006"We lost power last week, just got it back for a day or two, and now we lost it again," said John Monticello ...
-0.278632"We lost power last week, just got it back for a day or two, and now we lost it again," said John Monticello of Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. "Every day it's the same now: Turn on the gas burner for heat. Instant coffee. Use the iPad to find out what's going on in the rest of the world."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.607638
  • Mean: -0.303819
  • Standard Deviation: 0

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  • 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).

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Additional Info:

StateOrCounty: New Jersey

Overall Sentiment: 0.0687837

Relevance: 0.930032

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StateOrCounty: New York State

Overall Sentiment: -0.100974

Relevance: 0.464686

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City: New York City

Overall Sentiment: -0.0217209

Relevance: 0.89124

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City: New York

Overall Sentiment: -0.469366

Relevance: 0.497554

Country: U.S.

Overall Sentiment: -0.125632

Relevance: 0.333419

Disambiguation: Location | Region | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | FilmEditorReferences:

GeographicFeature: Long Island

Overall Sentiment: 0.22364

Relevance: 0.332896

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Katrina

Overall Sentiment: 0.144133

Relevance: 0.320495

Organization: Energy Department

Overall Sentiment: -0.16831

Relevance: 0.332479

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