Questions about "Jericho"

Why was it so dangerous for the people to go out in the
supposedly radiation-laced rain, yet there was no radiation in the
rainwater that had collected in pools after the storm?
Also, wouldn't a nuclear blast create a strong electromagnetic
burst which would erase the contents of the tape in the plane's black
box?

Electric Frog...

Yup the Black guy wasted all that time getting dressed up and taping down
sleeves as well

Electric Frog...

The other thing was their method of finding a satellite channel. Unless you
have the satellite box tuned into the particular frequency and the LNB set
to the right polaration then you could wave your dish past hundreds of
channels, plus as they were just moving it side to side it wasn't even
following the equatorial belt

Allen W. McDonnell...

Fallout mixed in the rain was the 'worst case scenario' they got lucky and

Daniel Damouth...

Actually it was the best case scenario. The rain filtered the radiation
out of the air. They were very lucky that storm hit when it did.
Otherwise they would have died like all the animals on the outskirts of
town.

As to whether touching the contaminated rainwater with your hand would
be dangerous, I don't know.

-Dan Damouth

it didn't happen.

EMP doesn't erase stored magnetic media unless you are very close, in which
case you are crushed, burned or vaporized depending on just how close you
were ;)