By Jess Baker Published: Mar 27, 2014, 1:18 PM EDT weather.com

Chris Robinson is building a boat in the backyard of his Palo Alto, Calif. home.

This web designer is not much of a builder, nor is he a sailor. But this boat isn’t your average boat. It’s a tsunami escape pod Robinson calls “Tsunamiball.”

“I am not expecting a tsunami in Palo Alto,” he tells weather.com. “Building the tsunamiball is more of a design challenge than a disaster preparation for me,” he says.

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