Wednesday, February 20, 2013

In typhoon-hit Philippines, warnings were ignored | Essentials

In typhoon-hit Philippines, warnings were ignored

Davao City by Night - The Peak, Gaisano Mall
Davao City by Night - The Peak, Gaisano Mall by jeff pioquinto, sj
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NEW BATAAN, Philippines –  Surrounded by steep mountains, far-flung New Bataan town has long been a tragedy waiting to happen in a valley of disasters. A government-issued geological hazard map identifies the extremely precarious location of the farming community in the southern Philippines as "highly susceptible to flooding and landslides." Yet, like in many other places on resource-rich Mindanao Island and elsewhere in this disaster-prone Southeast Asian nation, such warnings went unheeded — until a powerful typhoon struck this week, washing away emergency shelters, a military camp and entire families. The storm killed more than 350 people, with nearly 400 missing. Survivors of Typhoon Bopha like Joseph Requinto, a farmer, counted their blessings. After a night of pounding rain, floodwaters started rising around 4 a.m. Tuesday, trapping Requinto, his wife and two young children in their house near a creek. "After that I saw some people being swept away.

Keywords:

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People:

Gov. Arturo Uy

Overall Sentiment: -0.147972

Relevance: 0.817973

SentimentQuote
0.0134095"Even when we have floods, the water would not spill over so much. People are wondering why there was such a huge volume of water," he said. ...
0.531173"We thought they would be safe there, but the volume of water was so huge," he said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.5445825
  • Mean: 0.27229125
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Joseph Requinto

Overall Sentiment: 0.132177

Relevance: 0.611282

rivers

Overall Sentiment: 0.186476

Relevance: 0.517507

Leo Jasareno

Overall Sentiment: 0.0523094

Relevance: 0.506737

SentimentQuote
0.263122"There is the Mayo River there, it's a natural channel way of the water from the upstream," said Leo Jasareno, ...
0.206089"There is the Mayo River there, it's a natural channel way of the water from the upstream," said Leo Jasareno, director of the Bureau of Mines and Geosciences. "The water has no other path but Andap village."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.469211
  • Mean: 0.2346055
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Environment Secretary Ramon Paje

Overall Sentiment: -0.239925

Relevance: 0.46049

SentimentQuote
-0.247108"It's not only an environmental issue, it's also a poverty issue," said Environment Secretary Ramon Paje.
0.0161782"It's not only an environmental issue, it's also a poverty issue," said Environment Secretary Ramon Paje. "The people would say we are better off here, at least we have food to eat or money to buy food, even if it is risky. But somehow we would like to protect their lives and if possible give them other sources of livelihood so that we can take them out of these permanent danger zones."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.2309298
  • Mean: -0.1154649
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Vice President Jejomar Binay

Overall Sentiment: -0.0143534

Relevance: 0.448294

Davao Oriental

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.446851

Benigno Aquino

Overall Sentiment: -0.541616

Relevance: 0.422787

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:

PrintMedia: AP

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.379458

GeographicFeature: Compostela Valley

Overall Sentiment: -0.161565

Relevance: 0.81125

GeographicFeature: Mindanao Island

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.618378

Disambiguation: Location | IslandReferences:

GeographicFeature: Mayo River

Overall Sentiment: 0.250724

Relevance: 0.393047

GeographicFeature: South China Sea

Overall Sentiment: -0.0396769

Relevance: 0.388739

Region: Mindanao

Overall Sentiment: 0.0309313

Relevance: 0.789794

City: BATAAN

Overall Sentiment: -0.0307125

Relevance: 0.740527

City: Manila

Overall Sentiment: -0.369743

Relevance: 0.393188

City: Andap

Overall Sentiment: 0.14344

Relevance: 0.380045

Country: Philippines

Overall Sentiment: -0.230192

Relevance: 0.646004

StateOrCounty: Palawan

Overall Sentiment: -0.0792119

Relevance: 0.395652

Organization: central government

Overall Sentiment: -0.382814

Relevance: 0.404113

Company: The Associated Press

Overall Sentiment: 0.0298234

Relevance: 0.352555

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