Tsunami survival capsule

[Burnham]

M and I saw our first one of these down at Bandon, OR last week. Sitting on a small concrete pad in the front yard of an ocean front house...looked like a large lawn ornament .

http://survival-capsule.com/

Spendy...prices on a two person model start at $13,000.

I thought it was interesting enough to share.

 

[kevin bingham]

wow, I kind of want one. too bad we dont have much for waves in these parts.

 

[Burnham]

Well, they do say the capsules can offer safe refuge in all sorts of natural disasters...floods, earthquakes, hurricanes or tornados, even fires.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Well, I was enjoying Jerry's coastal pictures.....thinking how I would like to visit the coast some day.


Not so much now.

 

[Bermy]

Cool, looks like they've thought it through pretty well.

 

[gf beranek]

Even comes with optional surround sound system. Awesome!

 

[Mellow]

Haha, it's a metal sphere; even one speaker is surround sound!

 

[MrMoon5shine]

ohhh could you imagine getting pulled by boat in one? haha i think that would be a blast

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hmmmmmmm...

I dunno about a tornado!

 

[Burnham]

Agreed, Butch.

For that, you might want to fix the capsule into a VERY heavy concrete pad...just my thoughts, dunno what the manufacturer advises .

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Hell, I'd bury it.

 

[Mick!]

Lot of money in this sort of end of world stuff.

I remember going round a girls house and finding a room stocked with cans for the end of days.

It has a parallel with when we take out a perfectly healthy tree with falling distance of a house.

They?re buying peace of mind, no matter how silly. Can?t put a price on that. (Well you can I guess, $13000)

 

[Mellow]

I dunno about a tornado!

There's a tether option. <iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/NYffbLkPpn08o" width="480" height="287" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/forever-alone-napoleon-dynamite-NYffbLkPpn08o">via GIPHY</a></p>

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, I don't wanna be like that ball!!!

 

[Tree09]

What do you do when that gets washed out to sea and is rolling all over and upside down?

 

[BlackSmith]

Puke..?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I bet a nickel it's balanced/ballasted to stay upright.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Yes, I think so. It could be annoying if the door is under the water when they open it.
Maybe anchored too, with a rope or cable, to allow some movement but not to be washed out to the see.

 

[MasterBlaster]

If the door is underwater, don't open it. They have 02 inside.