When The Waters Rose At Hollins

I was a senior at then-Hollins College, when, on Nov. 4, 1985, Hurricane Juan brought relentless rain to the Roanoke Valley and to other parts of Virginia. Carvins Creek, in northern Roanoke County, was usually so quiet and wadeable, but that morning it became a torrent of vicious brown water that poured down out of the mountains over the Carvin’s Cove Reservoir dam and turned the lower side of campus upside down.