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Florence shutters 17 Waffle House restaurants

By Allison Elyse Gualtieri
Published September 15, 2018 7:49pm ET
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Florence shutters 17 Waffle House restaurants
A National Guard vehicle drives past a Waffle House as Hurricane Florence slowly moves across the East Coast Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, in Florence, S.C. | (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

As Florence sweeps over the Carolinas, one measure of a storm’s severity is catching people’s attention: the Waffle House Index.

Of the company’s 230 restaurants in the path of the tropical storm, 17 were closed Saturday, said a spokesman for the company, with nine others operating without power and seven more open and powered by generators.

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