Robert Simpson Quotations

I'm happy with the judge's decision, ... has a particularly violent record.

The physical damage is minimal and were grateful for that. Our big concern is the beach.

I always want their expectations to be high, ... I want them to say, ?Everybody in my family got a degree-- that?s just what we do.?

When you get up into winds in excess of 155 mph you have enough damage,

We ran from Katrina and she followed us, ... We got off the plane, secured our house the best way we thought we could ... and threw the same luggage in the car and turned around to go back out.

Frankly, no, ... There's a persistent desire of mankind to live near the water. It's like Americans and their automobiles.

We lost about two-thirds of our dune structure on a major part of our beach,

recognize which clouds are going to develop (into a hurricane), and you can't go around coating the sea every place.

A mature hurricane of moderate strength and size releases as much condensation heat energy in a day as the fusion energy of about 400 hydrogen super bombs, ... Achilles' heel.

If that extreme wind sustains itself for as much as six seconds on a building it's going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it's engineered. So I think that it's immaterial what will happen with winds stronger than 156 miles per hour. That's the reason why we didn't try to go any higher than that,