Sandy dust in my house

I anticipated various problems before we moved to San Miguel, but high winds and sand in my house were not among them.  We are on a low mesa on the outskirts of town and the wind can be amazingly strong here.  Some of the cushions from the furniture on our rooftop terrace kept ending up down in the empty lot next door, and the furniture itself gets blown across the roof.  One of the tall cacti we have up there was knocked over and the pot broken.

But the thing that really bothers me is the "dust" from the three housing construction zones next to us.  All of the vegetation from the three projects has been removed leaving the bare, sandy soil to blow about in the wind.  Sometimes the dust in the air is so think it looks as if it is raining, and nothing we do seems to keep it out of the house.  Every surface - furniture, floors, rugs - gets covered with white, gritty sand, and it accumulates so quickly I can't keep up with it.  I'm not a picky housekeeper, but this is getting me down.  Here is the top of the buffet about four days after it was thoroughly dusted.

Construction Woes

We have two construction sites right next to our house, so it is going to be noisy, dusty and smelly for awhile.  We had to close all the windows today because the diesel smell was overwhelming.  Hopefully that will go away when the ground preparation is finished and the actual building starts.  We are hoping they are not going to build too high and spoil our views, but we also hope the buildings will reduce some of the noise from the highway.

Whatever they are building here will probably overlook our back yard.  That is our wall in the photo.

This site is right next to the other one but is starting off a little lower.  No idea what they are building here.