vegetable oil for bar oil ???

[Al_Smith]

There was detection of that ash clear to Ohio from St Helens .For the next several years it rained cats and dogs .Soy beans hit 9 dollars a bushel, they couldn't get them out of the fields .I have no idea exactly how long that event just plain messed up the weather patterns .

[Real1shepherd]

I bought my first farm in Chehalis, WA around '83 and the main livestock barn still had ash piles on the metal roof. Removed the ash and there was bare metal underneath...galvanizing completely gone.

Neighbor was using ash to make pottery and glass stuff. He became somewhat of a celebrity with the hipster doofus crowd.

Kevin