When it comes to the South’s favorite gauge of where a hurricane is significantly affecting a community, Action News Jax has got you covered. Not smothered. Covered.
Waffle House confirmed to the Pensacola News Journal that all its Escambia and Santa Rosa County locations closed Friday at 10 a.m. as Hurricane Isaias approached a late-night landfall near Pensacola.
A spokesperson for the restaurant said the locations would remain closed until conditions are safe following the storm.
Any remaining, scattered storms would not deter re-openings of the popular breakfast spots.
Though it doesn’t track actual closings, a map of the chain’s over 1,900 locations, concentrated in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic, helps residents of storm-prone states assess whether they’re likely to lose power, experience severe flooding or endure other extreme conditions that might cause a resilient restaurant to close its doors.
For some, it’s a telltale sign of whether they need to evacuate.
Waffle House is known not just for serving breakfast 24/7, 365 days a year, but also for its disaster preparedness. For decades, people across the South have noticed that the local Waffle House seemed to be the only business still open during a storm or the first to reopen after it passed.
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