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OCR: Although deserts are dry places, they receive up to 10 inches of rain each year: if this rainfall is received as a once-a-year downpour, a desert may temporarily become a very wet place indeed! Water is one of the great sculptors of the desert. Rain falling during storms in the mountains rushes into dried out stream beds, also called arroyos or washes. With nothing to stop it, the water gains speed and roars onward to the plains between the mountains, producing one of nature's spectacular dangers - the flash flood.