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Re:The new luxury vacation: being dumped in the middle of no... by ganeshkrishnan on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:19PM (#29344641)
Also the person camped/slept in a dry river bed which is one of the worst possible places to camp. A flash flood or torrential rain uphill can wash him out in seconds.. and I can see even the company had recommended him to sleep. Really ignorant to put him at risk like that. Always follow the river but maintain distance.

You can see here how dry river beds flood https://youtu.be/oWHvi_tW-rg?t=206

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Re:The new luxury vacation: being dumped in the middle of no... by disabled on Thursday November 25, 2021 @06:34PM (#29346061)
Some snakes in Africa also prefer dry river beds. I would not be surprised if that is the case for scorpions too.

It’s an easy source for getting water too. Not only that, coming worldwide via global warming:

Intense storms in Egypt unleashed a massive swarm of scorpions from their nests, stinging 450 people and killing 3: https://www.yahoo.com/news/intense-storms-egypt-unleashed-ma...

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