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When I was in 10th grade, we were in the middle of a pretty severe El Nino and I remember it raining all day long while at school one day. Well unfortunately for me, I had to walk over a mile home through the desert. Only after raining all day, it was more like a swamp than a desert, and the normally dry creek I had to cross to get home was a raging torrent of waist high water. So dumb 10th grade me decides to try and cross said torrent. Needless to say I lost my footing and fell down and could start to feel myself being swept away. Luckily for me I was walking home with another guy and he dragged my ass to the other side of the creek. So not really super close to dying, but if I had been carried about a quarter mile downstream, the creek goes though an underground culvert about a half mile long, sooo yeah, it was kind of scary lol.