With Hurricane Florence pummeling the Carolina's, the eyes of the impacted communities, and FEMA, are again seeking guidance from a familiar source: Waffle House.
In the eyes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Norcross, Georgia-based restaurant chain's ability to stay open through massive natural disasters has become a useful informal metric for determining the severity of a storm. The "Waffle House Index" is the informal metric FEMA uses to determine the severity of a storm…
