i've been having random thoughts about how to survive a massive tsunami, or even the flurry of water from a pole shift, and i remembered something that actually maybe i can make my stand here on this funny little island where i'm starting to feel more and more at home

a sealed, very strong-walled chamber with an opening below the main part of the chamber, think like a cave descending downwards, retains its atmosphere and stays dry even when the water level passes way above the level of the upper part of the chamber

the most robust way to build such a thing is to dig into the side of a mountain that is largely composed of heavy, large chunks of rock, some maybe even many meters long and wide, or even solid rock... seal up the interior of the walls with strong steel reinforced concrete and several layers of hydroisolation on the outside of it (tar is the best for this, heavy thick layers of tar, stuff that is solid but contains some lighter fractions that seal up cracks if it gets fractured)

a cave built with the main part of the space well above the level of the entry will not be flooded and the air in there will be good for as long as the volume of the space can maintain... of course you'd probably want to keep a bunch of compressed air cylinders and some carbon dioxide scrubbing sodium hydroxide device of some sort that you open up when it is sealed for a time due to the outside being flooded

such a construction can be a full time dwelling anyway, and makes it easier to also put a tin foil layer along with the hydroisolation to block out gamma/x rays of a sun in the midst of massive flaring, as is also associated with the phenomena of the pole shift (the disruption of the fields is what kicks them off)

we have about 13 years until there is likely to be such incidents of intense X100+ flares, with associated heavy x- and gamma and UV radiation ... plenty of warning to have an adequate, underground structure built that in the circumstances here... about the only thing that i'd have to think carefully about is what happens if the exterior gets totally covered in dirt... haha... gotta have some way to dig back out, and quickly, before the stone sets too hard for the amount of depth that has to be dug out

anyway, i'm sure there will be ideas for how to deal with that... well chosen location will certainly help, probably want to build this near to the top of a ridge so there is like 10m above but not likely place for a huge amount of material to cover up the entrance badly

anyway, point being, this seems like a possible way to survive a massive catastrophe like i think is coming, like the Noah's Ark story... but what you can learn from reading other stories about the great catastrophe is that others survived in different ways... the Magura Cave in Bulgaria is an example of an underground living area that humans were in just about 12000 years ago... which is exactly when, i believe, the sun had its last superflare, and the flooding was part of the pole shift, both rain and seas moving up over to the land as the crust shifted its position (the steam from all the volcanoes being behind the rain part of it)

it is not a great time to be looking forward to as a species, it's typically 1200-2400 years of hell

but if it is what it is, what are you gonna do?

something! gotta try something! not gonna just lay down and die lol

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I had a summer job 25 years ago where I was required to under go polar-shift training. The plan was that if it ever happened they would all run to the boss's parent lake house, which was a couple hundred meters from the shop, and jump on their pontoon boat. The training consisted of a lot more basking in the sun anchored to a sandbar and drinking beer than you might suppose.

fascinating thought experiment. One obvious question: what to expect when you emerge? Madeira will have lost a lot of its charm!

yeah, it will take a few years for things to really start to kick back in, and there will probably whole swathes of species that fail to make it