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Wilson wanted to visit the famous Al-Khazneh (The Treasury), but could see the weather turning. She decided to make the hike regardless, and when the rain came she took shelter in a cave with a German couple.

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“We were stuck in the cave as the rain turned the ravine into a small river — small compared to what happened afterward,” she said.

When Wilson felt it safe to do so, she headed to The Treasury, where, she said, chaos reigned and ambulances came and went.

“There’s a canyon that runs for about a kilometre and a half from The Treasury (to the canyon entrance) and it had a couple of inches of water,” Wilson said. “I was walking quickly to the entrance of the canyon when locals began yelling ‘Run! Run! Run! The water is coming!’

“I ran up a small hill and heard a rumble, louder than the loudest thunderstorm. I turned on my video camera and you could see the flash flood coming around the corner.”

The corner where she had been just 30 seconds prior.

Stranded with 3,700 other tourists, she eventually made her way to the nearby town of Wadi Musa and found her driver/guide. They hopped in his vehicle and headed back to Amman along Jordan’s north-south Highway 15, known as the Desert Highway.

It was slow going, and about two hours later another storm hit.

“It was a vast lightning and thunderstorm,” Wilson said. “Within 20 or 30 minutes another flash flood hit.”

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Once again, the worst-hit area was where Wilson had been just prior.

It would claim lives, with the discovery on Monday in a valley in the Madaba district of the body of a five-year-old girl, bringing the death toll to 13.