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How Waffle House helps Southerners — and FEMA — judge a storm’s severity
The metric is known as the Waffle House Index. What might sound like silly logic has become one of the most reliable ways for Southerners — and even federal officials — to gauge a storm’s ...
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How Waffle House Stays Open During Extreme Weather
A Waffle House restaurant sits in front of a submerged road after Hurricane Florence hit in Kinston, North Carolina. Photo: Getty Images In the 1950s, Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner were neighbors ...
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Waffle House refuses to close even when locations have no power or water - here are the secret emergency menus they use instead
FEMA even unofficially uses a "Waffle House Index" that determines the impact of a natural disaster by how many Waffle House locations are forced to close. "If the community sees we're open ...