I was at the dump that Sunday morning, and the sky turned pitch black. Only had an AM radio in the pickup, had no idea what was up.
That ash was so hard on farm equipment for the next couple of years. Augers, feeder spouts, concaves, rub bars, plow bottoms, etc. Anything that came into contact with that abrasive ash wore out many times sooner than normal.
There were several towns like Ritzville that used snowplows to pile that stuff up. I don't know if any of those piles are still around, but I recall they were massive.
Plugged up air filters like crazy too.
