You know what is my greatest fear?  Being stuck in a desert on a hot sunny day!
You are right, living conditions are really hostile in a desert. It would be dangerous. 
I don't know how people who live in deserts do it.  It's hot, there's a constant fear of dust storms and lack of water.
Yeah, it is also dangerous when it rains because it can create flash floods. 
Have you seen the situation where people sleep in camels when there are flash floods or sand storms?
I have never heard of people sleeping in camels, in Somalia flash occurs annually and cause causalties.
I've seen it a few times on TV.  It looks terribly uncomfortable.
camel
in the separate genus "Camelops", known as "C. hesternus", lived in western North America until humans entered the continent at the end of the Pleistocene.
Biology.
The average life expectancy of a camel is 40 to 50 years. A full-grown adult camel stands at the shoulder and at the hump. Camels can run at up to in short bursts and sustain speeds of up to . Bactrian camels weigh and dromedaries . The widening toes on a camel's hoof provide supplemental grip for
the morning of 3 November Allenby ordered the XX and the Desert Mounted Corps to prepare for an attack to be launched against the Ottoman defences on 4 November when Sheria and Nejil would be the objectives. He reported to the War Office: "To–day has been a day of dust and haze, driven by a strong and hot south wind; and reconnaissance has been difficult. I don't really know what the Turks are doing on either flank; but they appear to be moving troops about, freely, in the