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Seen from the other side of the pond prepping looks really odd.

by kwhitefoot 6y ago

hugi 6y ago
Yeah, we Europeans have never seen war or natural disaster so why prepare.
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brundolf 6y ago
Deeply encoded in the American myth is the idea that every individual or family is an island. That we can (and some would say, should) operate without a society around us. If you look at the country through that lens, it explains a whole lot of our policy and culture, much of which is otherwise nonsensical.
- centimeter 6y ago
  Only people who don't understand tail risk think disentangling infrastructural dependencies is "nonsensical".
redisman 6y ago
Depends on where you are and what level of prepping you're doing. Basically all of the US west coast is very plausibly in the zone that could lose power and water from an earthquake for days/weeks. Most of the south east coastal US is hammered by ever bigger hurricanes every year. We just had a record forestfire summer in the mountain west and flooding on the plains. Europe is a pretty boring (adverse weather and geological activity)-wise so it might seem overblown from there.
- vram22 6y ago
  Good points. And there is also Tornado Alley: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley Excerpt: Although the official boundaries of Tornado Alley are not clearly defined, the main alley extends from northern Texas, through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. States such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio are sometimes included in Tornado Alley.[4] Research suggests that tornadoes are becoming more frequent in the northern parts of Tornado Alley where it reaches the Canadian prairies.
zarkov99 6y ago
Insurance looks really odd until the unlikely occurs. Then it looks very wise.
anonymousse1234 6y ago
That's your perspective. Believe it or not there is even a decent amount of gun owners on this side too.

Seen from the other side of the pond prepping looks really odd.

hugi 6y ago

Yeah, we Europeans have never seen war or natural disaster so why prepare.

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brundolf 6y ago

Deeply encoded in the American myth is the idea that every individual or family is an island. That we can (and some would say, should) operate without a society around us. If you look at the country through that lens, it explains a whole lot of our policy and culture, much of which is otherwise nonsensical.

centimeter 6y ago
Only people who don't understand tail risk think disentangling infrastructural dependencies is "nonsensical".

redisman 6y ago

Depends on where you are and what level of prepping you're doing. Basically all of the US west coast is very plausibly in the zone that could lose power and water from an earthquake for days/weeks. Most of the south east coastal US is hammered by ever bigger hurricanes every year. We just had a record forestfire summer in the mountain west and flooding on the plains. Europe is a pretty boring (adverse weather and geological activity)-wise so it might seem overblown from there.

vram22 6y ago
Good points. And there is also Tornado Alley: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley Excerpt: Although the official boundaries of Tornado Alley are not clearly defined, the main alley extends from northern Texas, through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. States such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio are sometimes included in Tornado Alley.[4] Research suggests that tornadoes are becoming more frequent in the northern parts of Tornado Alley where it reaches the Canadian prairies.

zarkov99 6y ago

Insurance looks really odd until the unlikely occurs. Then it looks very wise.

anonymousse1234 6y ago

That's your perspective. Believe it or not there is even a decent amount of gun owners on this side too.