You Can't See Mountains From Kansas

I've tried, I really have. I'm really wanting to be interested in a show called Jericho in which the citizens of a small Kansas town survive a nuclear holocaust. But I'm about four episodes in and losing interest fast. It's not the bad acting or painful dialog, most TV shows and movies have that. Rather it's the glaring mistakes and implausible circumstances that are like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Let me divide the writing mistakes into two categories: 1)You've never been to Kansas and 2) You haven't thought this through have you.

You've never been to Kansas:

• You can't see mountains from Kansas. The show takes place in a fictional Kansas town supposedly near Goodland or Colby, yet the townfolk can see a mountain range on the horizon. In reality you don't see the mountains until you almost get to Denver. And sorry, Denver (and its mushroom cloud) should be on this side of the mountains.
• I-70 is NOT a two-lane blacktop road that stops in small towns. It's a huge modern interstate with a lot of traffic. Where are all the truckers and vacationers, etc? The writers of this show should have been required to actually drive I-70 from KC to Denver. Or they should have to do it after the fact as punishment.
  
• Why is the Sheriff reporting to the town mayor instead of the county government? And they have a full-time fire department, mayor and deputy-mayor but no town cops? What about a judge or other leaders and officials?
  
• Is there no one in town in the National Guard? Is there no armory there? Are there no federal or state employees in Jericho?
  

You haven't thought this through, have you:

• How was the fallout not radioactive? At least 15 cities got nuked and there's no radioactive fallout?
  
• Why isn't there more panic over food and supplies? Riots and looting and murder wouldn't be completely surprising after a nuclear war.
  
• How do you get a satellite signal from China? Wouldn't that satellite be over China?
• How does a town on an interstate not get a steady and immediate stream of refugees?
• So those army tanks were driving across Kansas toward Denver, huh? I hope they filled up before they left.
• Airplanes ran out of fuel and had to land in fields? Kansas has a lot of small airports and runways (one of the longest in the country is in Salina), not to mention miles of long highways.

The list goes on and on. To see a more realistic depiction of a Kansas town after a nuclear war, watch The Day After.