salvation by waffles  FEMA Uses Waffle House Index to Measure
Hurricane Severity  Might explain the nation's obesity epidemic.
Might explain the nation's obesity epidemic.Photo: Waffle
House/WSJ  Looking for a reason to move to Canada? When it comes
to measuring hurricane damage, FEMA uses two metrics, reports
The Wall Street Journal: First is something called the Saffir-
Simpson Wind Scale, which sounds appropriately scientific; the
second metric relies on Waffle House.  The Waffle House chain is
basically the cockroach of the fatty-food world. The place just
won't shut down, even during driving winds and torrential
downpours. It's a beacon of hope, a place of comfort and shelter
for people who desire a choice when courting death: braving the
elements or cardiac arrest by way of smothered hash browns.  You
have to give the place credit: When Irene hit, the company's
mobile command center ("an RV named EM-50 after Bill Murray's
urban-assault vehicle in the 1981 movie Stripes," notes WSJ)
sprung into action, m