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Cleaning up after Sandy | Reduction

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Cleaning up after Sandy

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Superstorm Sandy was barreling toward the Northeast, and businesses specializing in disaster response and cleanup were being flooded with calls from homeowners and businesses in distress. One of those first-responder companies was Jarvis Property Restoration, which is based in Detroit and also has offices in Illinois, Iowa and Florida. "People started reaching out to us by 11 [Monday night]," said Don Wilgus, director of marketing and sales at Jarvis. Sandy has passed, but the calls continue. "It's just starting for us," Wilgus said. "We can't yet grasp how big this is going to be." The largest disaster response the company was ever involved in was in 2008, when it sent 1,600 workers to Iowa to clean up damaged buildings after the Cedar River flooded Cedar Rapids. The company did $28 million worth of recovery and reconstruction work there, Wilgus said.

People:

Superstorm Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.209488

Relevance: 0.890717

SentimentQuote
0.158313"Sandy has impacted a very large land mass that involves densely-populated areas and dense real estate environments," he said. ...
0.108088"Sandy has impacted a very large land mass that involves densely-populated areas and dense real estate environments," he said. "These features could make the scope of our work even bigger than with Katrina."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.266401
  • Mean: 0.1332005
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Jarvis

Overall Sentiment: 0.173986

Relevance: 0.648719

SentimentQuote
0.211318"We also have four trucks with drying equipment, high-power water pumps, dehumidifiers, blowers and roof tarp heading there," he said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.211318
  • Mean: 0.211318
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Don Wilgus

Overall Sentiment: 0.112065

Relevance: 0.537572

SentimentQuote
0"People started reaching out to us by 11 [Monday night]," said Don Wilgus, ...
0"It's just starting for us," Wilgus said. ...
0"It's just starting for us," Wilgus said. "We can't yet grasp how big this is going to be."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Sheldon Yellon

Overall Sentiment: 0.234265

Relevance: 0.413236

SentimentQuote
0"Hundreds of companies had signed up before Hurricane Sandy hit," said Sheldon Yellon, ...
0"Hundreds of companies had signed up before Hurricane Sandy hit," said Sheldon Yellon, CEO of Belfor. "We are sending our people from as far as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta to these areas."
0.0515448"When you have flooded-out facilities, the immediate issue is to remove the water, prevent mildew, demolish and reconstruct," said Yellon.
0.0464067"When you have flooded-out facilities, the immediate issue is to remove the water, prevent mildew, demolish and reconstruct," said Yellon. "This isn't a one-week process -- its months."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0979515
  • Mean: 0.024487875
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Belfor

Overall Sentiment: 0.176942

Relevance: 0.264132

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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:

Region: Northeast

Overall Sentiment: 0.0314557

Relevance: 0.436738

City: Belfor

Overall Sentiment: -0.467951

Relevance: 0.401756

City: NEW YORK

Overall Sentiment: 0.0567063

Relevance: 0.329923

StateOrCounty: Iowa

Overall Sentiment: -0.297041

Relevance: 0.333982

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NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Katrina

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.400213

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