Storm clouds pushed by Tropical Storm Ida dropped as much as an inch and a half of rain on parts of Northwest North Carolina and the Triad yesterday.
But another 3 to 6 inches of rain may fall in the region before the storm's remnants completely move out of the state by early Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service said last night.
The weather service issued flood watches last night for counties throughout both regions.
Ida first sloshed ashore yesterday morning at Dauphin Island, Ala., before heading across Mobile Bay toward the Alabama mainland and on to Florida.
Upon landfall, Ida weakened to a depression, causing little damage along the Gulf Coast but bringing more rain to the already-soaked Southeast.
Tropical moisture from the storm will combine with a cold front to produce moderate to heavy rain through tonight, said Kris Matta, a weather-service meteorologist in Blacksburg, Va. Today's total rainfall is expected to be between 3 and 3½ inches in Northwest North Carolina and southern Virginia.
In Forsyth and Guilford counties, tropical moisture and a low pressure system off the coast likely will bring up to 2 inches of rain to the Triad by this morning, weather- service officials in Raleigh said.
Camel City Cafe loses its lease
Camel City Cafe, located in the Stevens Center at 401 W. Fourth St., is losing its operating space beginning Dec. 1.
UNC School of the Arts, which owns the center, has terminated its lease with the restaurant, citing "repeated failures" of cafe owner John Hughes to pay rent on time.
George Burnette, the school's chief operating officer, said that Hughes has paid his rent on time only four times since he became a tenant in 2005.
As "stewards of a state property, we must manage our facilities in a business-like manner," Burnette said in an e-mail.
Hughes told his customers by e-mail that UNCSA's action would mean the cancelation of many Christmas parties and hardship for his employees during the holiday season.
"They have, in effect, given me no option to sell or move my restaurant," he said.
School officials said they want another restaurant in the center as part of its commitment to the Winston-Salem business community and downtown revitalization.
Pork producer files for bankruptcy
CLINTON -- A pork producer in Clinton has filed for bankruptcy after complaints from unpaid vendors and falling pork consumption tied to swine-flu fears.
Coharie Farms of Clinton filed for bankruptcy Friday. Owner Anne Faircloth said that she plans to liquidate the company and that some of its 170 employees will be laid off. Faircloth is the daughter of Lauch Faircloth, a former Republican senator from North Carolina.
As many as 30 farmers complained earlier this month that Coharie hadn't paid for grain deliveries. Coharie's debts to various vendors top $3 million.
The company blamed losses of nearly $30 million in the past two years on a 2008 increase in grain prices, a $20 drop in hog prices and unwarranted fears about the H1N1 virus, despite assurances by health officials that the swine-flu virus isn't linked to pork consumption.
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