>> since when does rain turn desert into paste?
NV dirt has some very unique qualities. You ever seen pictures of hard dry cracked dirt? When it’s dry and ground down it’s as fine as flour, get it wet and it’s can be anywhere from cake batter to as they said paste. You can get very stuck if the softened wet dirt is deep enough. The more traffic through it the more it’s going to break down the hard dry dirt and thicker the paste will get.