Doom And Gloom Report for August 8, 2006

We here at the Doom And Gloom Report also, when appropriate, shoot down myths, rumours, and other falsehoods of reported doom and gloom.

Based on the number of emails we have received questioning the lack of response we feel it is now time to respond.

A new tv series from CBS will make its debut in the fall. It is called Jericho. The premise of the show is as follows:

Jericho (Wednesdays at 8 PM): When a nuclear mushroom cloud appears suddenly over Jericho, Kansas, the townspeople there have to deal with the chaos and lawlessness that ensues when they think they're the only Americans still alive. How do they deal with essential services being elminated and everyone's out for themselves? Secrets are revealed and people find something within themselves that they never knew existed. What I want to know is: why Kansas? Didn't ABC blow up Kansas on The Day After 20 years ago? What did this state do to deserve getting nuked twice by TV writers? Anyway, Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney star.

Based on the concerned and sometime frantic nature of the emails we must state that this production IS NOT A DRAMATIZATION OF ACTUAL EVENTS!!! This is a drama based on fantasy or something that COULD happen.....kind of like Star Trek.

Rest assured there has been no mushroom clouds sighted within the airspace of the contnental United States since the 1950's. In fact there has been no significant release of radiation in some time. We could not confirm the case of suspected release of uranium 235 gas in Sandusky, Ohio in the mid 1970's that supposedly caused three causalties to include one death. This case still remains active in our files.

So, if you watch this program while taking a break from your stockpiling....enjoy.