Tsunami Pod<\/a>, also known as the RescuePod. This puppy comes with two “racing seats,” a personal locator beacon, MREs and water for three days, waste bags, a hose for bailing out any seawater that might get in, and metal loops to enable a helicopter or ship to hoist it out of the ocean or whatever pile of debris it ends up in. Additional upgrades are available for pets, communications, comfort, rations, and more.<\/p>\nThe pod doesn’t appear to come with barf bags, which I suspect would be badly needed.<\/p>\n
Furrydoc and I agreed we’d probably rather die than be tossed about for days in this device. But at least a few others disagree. The vendor has sold 13 of them so far and the pods were drawing more interest than most other displays at the event.<\/p>\n
For a mere $6,900 or $1,500 down and $200 a month on approved credit, you, too, can be tossed about like a grape in a punchbowl — but, in fairness, also have an interesting chance of riding out a tsunami if you manage to get into it, strap yourself in, and dog down the top quickly enough. <\/p>\n
Videos available via the site do show the thing as being amazingly stable and buoyant in water (though quite a rough ride). And in truth, no matter how bad a long ride in that pod might be, there are places along the Oregon and Washington coast so flat and wide that there’s almost no chance of escaping a tsunami. This might be all you’ve got, other than clinging to a piece of floating debris and hoping not to get crushed by some bigger piece of debris.<\/p>\n
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Furrydoc and I, however, stuck with buying organic berries, artisanal balsamic vinegars, and fresh-baked sourdough bread that was almost — almost<\/em> — San Francisco quality.<\/p>\nTsunamis may be the worst hazard of living in this area. But I tell you, fabulous fresh food is among the blessings that make up for all the ordinary and extraordinary miseries of life in the NorthWET. <\/p>\n
After the market, we stopped at a Walmart where (strangely enough) they were handing out samples of what, by Walton standards, constitutes fresh fruit. I took one little cup with an orange slice in it and another than contained two blueberries, a blackberry, and half a strawberry. The items were all tasteless, unless eye-watering sourness counts as taste. I could cry when I think of the difference between that and real fresh fruit.<\/p>\n
But no crying tonight. I’m enjoying a dinner of real<\/em> blueberries and strawberries from the farmers’ market, plus sourdough bread pieces alternately slathered in grass-fed butter or dipped in barrel-aged vinegar as thick and delicious as maple syrup.<\/p>\n—–<\/p>\n
Seconds after I blogged, Furrydoc shared a photo of her dinner for tonight, made up almost entirely of ingredients bought at the market today, right down to the homemade balsamic dressing. Now, that’s pretty.<\/p>\n
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