Loja- dirty city

I don’t mean from litter or pollution ( though the fumes from the buses can be over powering), it is dirt and dust on the ground and the air.

The ground that the city sits on, and the surrounding hills, is a combination of sand and gravel.  When it rains the water carries away fine particles of dirt.  If it rains heavily, there are also minor, and not so minor, mud slides.  This sediment get carried until it can settle….some times on the street.

Then the sun comes out….hot…and dries the sediment.  A bus or a car drives over it, and kicks the dust up into the air.

So this means that an hour or two after a major rain, you can have clouds of dust being blown around by the wind.  It isn’t a big problem, you just have to walk with your mouth closed some times.

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