Consumer shopping trends have felt like a soap opera for the past year. Q1 of 2020 remained fairly steady with the previous year’s trends, but everything changed from 2020 Q2 forward. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce Statistics, total retail sales rose around 7 percent from Q4 2019 to Q4 2020. But it’s the […]

A tornado, featuring wind speeds up to 100 mph, struck New York on Wednesday, April 21. The tornado came in the wake of powerful thunderstorms. These thunderstorms progressed through the tri-state area Wednesday afternoon. The EF-1 tornado hit just south of Amenia, located near the Connecticut border. The Dutchess County town felt the powerful effects […]

The video quality was astounding for an amateur. The narration over it along with all the perspective shots left nothing to be desired in the slightest. The civilian uses his experience and the explanation of it to warn future civilian about the power of typhoons, and what to do in case what hits. What they’re […]

The quality of the video was very good, even in the areas where regular citizens were filming it was good. However, there wasn’t a single role within the video, due to it was a mashup of the event itself and the response. The entire purpose of the video was to educate and inform on the […]

The quality of the video was pretty good considering it was taken by a civilian (it had to be) and it managed to capture the event as it was happening. The citizen’s purpose for recording this event was to document it in a sort of way for future sharing, whether that be with the news […]

The quality of the video is lackluster for a video to be posted on media, without professional cameras, but for an average civilian (which is what the angle leads you to believe) it is pretty good. However, with that being said there is a high possibility this was done with a definite purpose in mind. It could […]