Reply #2: Not sure about that [View All]

[KT2000]

My brother had such an app and he spent a lot of time trying to follow up on things he heard on the scanner - he wanted to know how things turned out.

But then again - when Mt. St Helens blew, we heard three loud explosions, like bombs had gone off. We did not know what it was and being out in the boonies we had few options to find out. The old time scanner was great for that - deputies were calling in with reports of broken windows and everyone was trying to figure out what was going on. I live a few hundred miles away.

The dispatcher eventually informed all emergency workers it was the volcano blowing. Eventually they determined that the "bombs" we heard was the sound waves from the volcano bouncing off the Olympic Mountain range.