And I think your memory serves you wrong. When the streets were powdery white sand the ground was very porous and the water would not puddle any at all on the land. And there were no "lakes of mud".
Those started when the heavy equipment (to build those mega-buildings) started rolling over the beautiful powdery roads crushing and packing the sand into a non-porous clay-like texture.
Have the eye infections and the breathing problems from the dust stopped now? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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