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.

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.

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

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

That's your perspective.

Believe it or not there is even a decent amount of gun owners on this side too.