Catawba River

A second storm-related death in Alabama was attributed to a motor vehicle crash involving a downed tree in Barbour County, said Jos Johnson of the state's Emergency Management Agency.

In Burke County, North Carolina, an unhoused female and male were camping when floodwaters from the Catawba River caught them off guard.

They were rescued, along with their dog, according to a spokesperson for the County Emergency Management Agency.

Separately, a woman trapped inside her car in floodwaters was freed outside of Morgantown.

Yeah.

I can hear, like, my apartment is maybe a quarter of a mile from the Catawba River, and sometimes I like to go out there and listen to the river, but I can hear so much traffic, and it's

just...

Oh, that ruins everything.

There, deep amid the Blue Ridge Mountains, rises the crest called the Great Erie.

Its huge, rounded form is distinctly seen from the little town of Morganton, on the Catawba River, and still more clearly as one approaches the mountains by way of the village of Pleasant Garden.

Why the name of Great Erie was originally given this mountain by the people of the surrounding region, I am not quite sure.

It rises rocky, and grim, and inaccessible, and under certain atmospheric conditions has a peculiarly blue and distant effect.

End of chapter III.

THE GREAT ERIE The next day at dawn.

Elias Smith and I left Morganton by a road which, winding along the left bank of the Catawba River, led to the village of Pleasant Garden.

The guides accompanied us, Harry Horn, a man of thirty, and James Bruck, aged twenty-five.

There, deep amid the Blue Ridge Mountains, rises the crest called the Great Erie.

Its huge, rounded form is distinctly seen from the little town of Morganton, on the Catawba River, and still more clearly as one approaches the mountains by way of the village of Pleasant Garden.

Why the name of Great Erie was originally given this mountain by the people of the surrounding region I am not quite sure.

It rises rocky, and grim, and inaccessible, and under certain atmospheric conditions has a peculiarly blue and distant effect.

CHAPTER III.

THE GREAT ERIE.

THE NEXT DAY AT DAWN Elias Smith and I left Morganton by a road which, winding along the left bank of the Catawba River, led to the village of Pleasant Garden.

The guides accompanied us, Harry Horn, a man of thirty, and James Bruck, aged twenty-five.

The, uh, all of, uh, South Carolina is outlined at, uh, i- in some level of dryness.

Uh, the, uh, Catawba River region I call it, uh, Dorchester and Lancaster Counties down to the Midlands and the Central Savannah River area, you're at D0, abnormally dry, which is, is dry, uh, but, uh, not, not horrible.

Uh, unless you're in my backyard where there's, has been the, uh, in, uh, transparent aluminum dome over me and it hasn't rained hardly at all in a month or two.

Uh, so, uh, my neighborhood's really dry, but, uh, that's not the case over all of the Midlands.