the earthquake/doomsday bed

[greybeard]

To me, it is reminiscent of a steel coffin.........the sides flip up, then down after the mattress opens up, swallows you and what used to be the sides covers you up..

There are lots of other videos out there...this all looks pretty lame to me.

 

[ClinchValley86]

Turns a quicker death into a long drawn out ordeal. Don't know how I feel about it. Gots to have faith in the first responders. Hopefully there would be some sort of registry to tell them you're in there waiting patiently.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

Turns a quicker death into a long drawn out ordeal. Don't know how I feel about it. Gots to have faith in the first responders. Hopefully there would be some sort of registry to tell them you're in there waiting patiently.

If it has a battery, you could have some food, cold drinks, a wet bar, maybe a tablet set up with movies or shows to watch, downloaded music, two-way radios, a CB radio, police scanner, first aid kit, mood lighting, emergency meds, books, writing supplies, air horns, and so on. It could even have a siren that activates after a specified amount of time, or a voice recording telling first responders where you are (well, where you were)... or a live speaker and microphone. All of that would be great, assuming you aren't completely buried and run out of oxygen.

Oh! You could have oxygen, too.

 

[ClinchValley86]

If it has a battery, you could have some food, cold drinks, a wet bar, maybe a tablet set up with movies or shows to watch, downloaded music, two-way radios, a CB radio, police scanner, first aid kit, mood lighting, emergency meds, books, writing supplies, air horns, and so on. It could even have a siren that activates after a specified amount of time, or a voice recording telling first responders where you are (well, where you were)... or a live speaker and microphone. All of that would be great, assuming you aren't completely buried and run out of oxygen.

Oh! You could have oxygen, too.

it'd need a manure bag and an external type catheter. Has to have.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

it'd need a manure bag and an external type catheter. Has to have.

Yes, I suppose it would.

 

[farmerjan]

NO THANK YOU.....

 

[backhoeboogie]

When your time is up your relatives don't need to find a casket. Just put you to bed.

 

[greybeard]

When your time is up your relatives don't need to find a casket. Just put you to bed.

That's how dead people used to be put in a casket anyway. In their night clothes. I remember my grand parents being buried (and previously, on view in caskets) in what I would call 'dressing gowns'.

In the 1800s, women chose or even sewed what they wanted to be buried in due to the high death rate during childbirth, which came relatively soon after marriage. Not unusual in that century, for the burial gown to be sewn/made from the recently worn bridal gown.
(White longjohns but NO plaid PJs for men!)

Photos of the dead were common.
Memento mori: remember, you must die

 

[Ouachita]

Looks like that could be easily modified into a large waffle iron. That way, when you're done, you're done.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Here near the coast of Oregon the Pacific plate is sliding under the San Juan de Fuca plate ( Yes, we will be Fuca ed). That's what wrinkled up and created the Coast Range mountains and the Cascade mountains further east. The next big one is about 350 years over due. What will probably happen is the landscape will shake and rise up, then drop 20 feet straight down. This doomsday bed is probably not going to be of much use.

Are You Ready For The "Big One?" Most Oregon Highways Will Be Knocked Out

Are you prepared for grocery stores to be empty? For roads into and out of your area to be so damaged that travel by road will likely be impossible for months, or potentially even years afterwards?

thatoregonlife.com

One possible good thing- California might break off and drift out to sea.

 

[greybeard]

Here near the coast of Oregon the Pacific plate is sliding under the San Juan de Fuca plate ( Yes, we will be Fuca ed). That's what wrinkled up and created the Coast Range mountains and the Cascade mountains further east. The next big one is about 350 years over due. What will probably happen is the landscape will shake and rise up, then drop 20 feet straight down. This doomsday bed is probably not going to be of much use.

Are You Ready For The "Big One?" Most Oregon Highways Will Be Knocked Out

Are you prepared for grocery stores to be empty? For roads into and out of your area to be so damaged that travel by road will likely be impossible for months, or potentially even years afterwards?

thatoregonlife.com

One possible good thing- California might break off and drift out to sea.

Those huge geological uplifts are commonplace. The Llano Uplift is why there are fossilized creatures and ancient seashells 6" below surface and just below my shallow topsoil here in Central Texas at over 1000' elevation. The water was never 1000' deep here...the seabed simply rose up that much.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I used to find those giant water snails on those flat top hills. Good times.


But the fault lines here are a lot more active here. Growing up on the west coast I actually love earthquakes. They are fun as long as nothing falls on you. One afternoon I was taking a nap and the bed started moving and jumping. I thought it was my sister's grumpy old husky that like to sleep under there. I hung upside down to tell her to get out- no dog.
So I went out to the hall (an interior structure) and grabbed both sides of the wall. It was rolling like a wave and shaking like being in the hallway of a moving passenger train. It's funny. When earthquakes hit at the dinner table our forks would giggle away and we just grabbed them and kept eating. But if thunder and lightning, which is rare, everybody runs out in the street to see the show.

 

[greybeard]

GIANT SNAILS!! WALK FOR YOUR LIVES!!!


I found a few of those here but mostly the smaller Gryphaea called Devil's toenails.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Those were not really snails but some kind of tentacled creature. There were much weirder ones.

25 of the strangest ancient sea monsters

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today.

www.livescience.com

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

In case of a survivable Big One earthquake on Oregon coast region. I'm not a 'survivalist' but I keep a big pantry fully stocked and rotated with canned foods and and have alternative 'energy sources'. NOA weather emergency radio and micro organism drinking water filters and fishing equipment for living next to a river. Plus at least 3 months worth of our prescription medicines. Also a Lock and Load collection of guns and ammo. In case we survive the Big One bring it on.

 

[greybeard]

Those were not really snails but some kind of tentacled creature. There were much weirder ones.

25 of the strangest ancient sea monsters

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today.

www.livescience.com

Yep, Nautilus. They still exist but are endangered. I saw a small one in a zoo/aquarium type setting in Hawaii many years ago. It didn't look too Bueno.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

Those were not really snails but some kind of tentacled creature. There were much weirder ones.

25 of the strangest ancient sea monsters

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today.

www.livescience.com

all are mollusks - snails, octopus, squids, clams, oysters, nautilus