John Cummings Quotations

We are pretty confident that the downtown area is going to be OK, ... Of course, it is still susceptible to wind damage and those type of issues.

When we have an event like Katrina, everybody starts thinking about it.

The primary components are having some type of water, a minimum of one gallon of water per person per day.

Looks like we're out of it. It should give the city a chance to do some debris clearing.

Retrofitting can be simple things like taking a cafeteria, adding bolts to the top and bottom of the door so it doesn't rattle open during a hurricane; providing some type of security screen on the outside so it will do two things: keep the bad guys out, but provide missile-impact resistance when we have a hurricane.

I don't have any details on how we'll proceed with the disposition of assets, but the goal is to get the best value of our current assets.

I believe Westwood is teetering on the edge of going from a top 10 school system to a top 100.

Historically speaking, we have not had any major issues with downtown, ... Speaking with our tsunami scientist folks, a tsunami surge in Honolulu Harbor should not exceed 2 or 3 feet, 4 max. We expect a storm surge model to be similar to that.

He didn't have cuts or bruises or any blood on him, ... Then I looked at the car seat. The force that was in this crash had destroyed the car seat.

The 2 percent would allow growth to pay for growth.

We need growth to pay for growth. We need other solutions.

We have known, as the trust has known and the court has known all along, that the day would come when the trust would monetize its investment in Johns Manville and diversify its portfolio.

With a combination of last week's rains and (yesterday's rain), we could end up with a sizable disaster situation. It might not be a lot of major damage, but if it is spread out over the entire island, it could be significant.

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

You want the harness to face the opposite direction we face,

You want the harness to be like hands holding her down. You don't want her to squeeze through like a banana.

There is not pressure but there is motivation both within the company and with Manville Trust to optimize the value of this enterprise,

It's a very steep area. Thankfully there are no homes here, but my road crews tell me they had been out here quite a few times in the past.

It's not safe. It's going to take a major effort to fix it. There's a lot of road and mountain damage.

It's getting better, but there's still a long way to go,

(It's) so we don't forget him. It's so other people can see we remember him and love him.

The value is really what anybody would be willing to pay for it. But right now, there are no specific plans. Its fate is unknown.

In general, they're probably pretty prepared right now,

All of these businesses have to get running again and they can only do it if employees are ready to go,

The living quarters, fortunately where the home is, is OK, but there are some visible cracks in the ground. The concern right now is of course the property, but more so if it's going to block the stream, if that slide goes across.