((PKG)) HURRICANE FLORENCE WAFFLE HOUSE
((Banner: Sustenance))
((Reporter: Bill Gallo))
((Camera: Gabrielle Weiss))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Goldsboro, North Carolina))
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Breakfast chain Waffle House serves up warm food in the eye of storms. If it closes, time to panic!
((Cheyenne Klagon, Waffle House Employee))
My name is Cheyenne Klagon. This is the Wayne Memorial Waffle House is Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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Waitress: You all okay baby?
Patrons: Yes ma’am.
Waitress: All right.
Waitress: Cecil? You all got cups over there? You all got cups?
((Patron, Resident of Goldsboro))
Yeah, Waffle House is always open. 24-7 no matter what. Snow, rain, hurricane, it’s always open.
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((Cheyenne Klagon, Waffle House Employee))
Thank you so much. I’m going to call your ticket as soon as I get the opportunity. Okay?
((Barbara Flowers, Resident of Goldsboro))
I came to the Waffle House because I lost electricity in my home. I can’t cook. I can’t bathe. I do have water to drink but I can’t charge my cell phone. I’m a heart patient. I’m getting a sausage, egg and hash brown bowl and a waffle.
((Patron, Resident of Goldsboro))
Two years ago, we had a Hurricane Matthew. It took like two weeks for everything to stop flooding everywhere.
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((Dr. Robert Dunmire, Wayne Memorial Hospital, Goldsboro, North Carolina))
So yeah, we’re taking a break from work. I work at the hospital. I do kidney dialysis and we have a lot of patients that are needing dialysis. A lot of them come from out of county who have evacuated here to get away from the coast. The hospital has made itself available and I’m here to kind of help out where I can.
((Reporter: What brings you to the Waffle House?))
((Dr. Robert Dunmire, Wayne Memorial Hospital, Goldsboro, North Carolina))
Well, we’re hungry. A lot of the restaurants are closed. We can get food at the hospital but we prefer to try something different, and we hear as long as the Waffle House is open, it can’t be too bad. When the Waffle House closed, you know the storm’s is too much, so we thought we’d come and try the Waffle House.
((Cheyenne Klagon, Waffle House Employee))
Waffle House is the go-to store for emergency situations, so to speak.
((Reporter: I think we’re done. Oh, look at that.))
((Cheyenne Klagon, Waffle House Employee))
Right on time, right? We haven’t had this all day but that you’re doing this interview, of course the lights are going to flicker. We call that Charlie. He runs around the store now and then causing a little mischief and then he goes back where he needs to go. That’s our Waffle House Ghost, we call him.
