Lucky Us?

If the Reds decided to push the button tomorrow, where would you want to be? Well, if you live in Lewes or Seaford, you might just want to answer with a nod.

According to the official Department of Defense strategic estimates, most of us here in slower lower would fare pretty well in a large-scale nuclear war. And Sussex County would be virtually untouched by any direct nuclear blast effects.

Of course, it probably wouldn't be all fun and games for us down here in chicken country. Anybody who's seen On the Beach knows that if the blast doesn't kill you, the fallout just might. The national map shows almost the entire east coast being affected by the wind-blown nuclear fallout. Here in Delaware, it might not be all bad...we're a pretty "withered sunflower yellow" rather than the less-preferable "roasted ladybug red."

But, even if we survive that, it might not be a permanent recess for us here in the second half of the first state. Anybody who's seen Jericho knows that if the blast and the fallout doesn't kill you, your starving neighbor just might. If we don't start signing some peace treaties now, we might have a world war (county war?) four declared before we even stop talking about the third one. The Downstate Daily will do a full report about the great Battle of Gumboro. It'll be chaos! But, hey, we're all downstaters, right? We can all get along, right?

Sure we can. But...well, I could go on and on with references to post-apocalyptic nightmares from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome to The Postman, but I've pop cultured you enough. Whatever happens in WWIII, we slower lowerers can be assured that we'll probably live long enough to kick back at least one or two more cold ones until the trouble really starts. But for the rest of Delaware...well, it was a blast!