For those who don't understand how Americans relate a waffle restaurant to weather events:

Waffle House restaurants are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They do NOT close for ANY reason except impending catastrophe.

So when Waffle House reports that all locations in a city have been closed due to weather, that area is most likely fucked after the storm is over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

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Waffle House is so good at responding to storms that FEMA uses it to determine disaster aid. How does it get up and running so quickly?

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