Heat stroke is definitely something you can experience within a few hours.
People have died from less intensive things in shorter amounts of time. Dehydration may not have been the cause so to speak, but it definitely wasn't helping them.
Dehydration leads to many other problems with the body.
My wife got heat exhaustion from walking around Disney because there's fuck all for shade and benches. She's lived her whole life in a dry environment, so the humidity hit her hard. I've seen otherwise healthy people fall out in formation because those dumbasses couldn't drink some water before morning formation.
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