Michael Sheridan Quotations

I think what they probably had was a couple of days (to get out). There are lots of skeletons but thousands and thousands of footprints.

I think this is really a major finding, finding up to three meters of ash that was traveling along the ground at hurricane velocities like the blast at Mount St. Helens. It would be like the blast of Mount St. Helens occurring but having a city that was destroyed.

I think they (commissioners) have the right to examine procurement processes, but I think there is a degree of micromanagment here.

People left utensils on tables, food plates. They just left and beat it out of there.

The pattern is that every 2,000 to 3,000 years, there is a monstrous eruption (of Mount Vesuvius). And it has now been about 2,000 years.

The deal was brought to me by a business broker in spring 2005. We went through due diligence - meeting with their brokers and meeting with some of their clients.

We didn't know that the city of Naples would be so threatened. We never had evidence for a blast extending into the Neapolitan area and beyond it.

These were bronze age people and they had a pantheon of gods that they thought controlled their world.

This is our second acquisition in 2 1/2 years in the medical area.

This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people? They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.

There was this Bronze Age eruption about 4000 years ago, and then 2000 years ago there was the 79AD event. It seems that just about every 2000 years, there's been a major eruption of this scale at Vesuvius.

It seemed like the knowledge base was a lot deeper than it had been, ... The system seemed to be well thought out.

These volcanoes don't even have to erupt. They just sit there and a part of it comes roaring off.

Evidence shows that a sudden, en masse evacuation of thousands of people occurred at the beginning of the eruption. Everything was there.