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By Lorraine Jewett | Special to The Union Pat Warner Has Lived Here Since 1988, and he appreciates our town’s idiosyncrasies. Pat recalls when flashlights put GeeVee in the national spotlight. “Back in ’98 I turned on the TV late one night and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was on so I gave it a watch,” recalls Pat. “Imagine my surprise when he was right in the middle of a regular segment in which he showed actual newspaper clips of local police blotters and our very own blotter from The Union was featured. It was something like, ‘A caller in Grass Valley reported seeing an abando...

Posted on 16395 Tractor Supply Company, the largest Out Here lifestyle retailer in the United States, is supporting its communities and customers in Texas by donating $100,000 to agriculture, pet and livestock organizations in the Lone Star State recovering from the recent winter storms. “When these unprecedented storms ravaged Texas, we knew our Tractor Supply neighbors would need help. In addition to ensuring the safety of our Team Members and keeping our stores in stock to aid in recovery, we quickly began searching for additi...

>> dana: with hurricane dorian now sitting south florida, waffle house restaurants across the southeast, theory did. the chain sets up a command center in georgia. federal agencies use the restaurant chain to gauge how quickly a community can bounce back. it's nonas the waffle house index. pat warner is here from the waffle house storm center in nor cross, georgia. i love what you do. tell me how this got started. >> really, our response to hurricanes goes back to hugo. restaurants in the strike zone area, we've always responded. we got attention when craig fugate was the administrator. he cam...

Us, to feed the first responders and the power crews. other all vital after the storm. we want to make sure they're well-fed and happy. >> dana: so you're in charge of public relations and external affairs. what is it like from an internal p.r. standpoint for all the employees of waffle house that also might be victims of these storms, what is it like for everybody to feel like they're a part of the team working together trying to help everybody else? >> really that family atmosphere. we want to help our teammates out. we were in florida, georgia and the carolinas. we have a lot of folks that ...

Now, they're getting the latest on a waffle house indicator that shows that the region already could be trying to come back. a waffle house spokesman pat warner joins us. pat, it's a fascinating index because it's proven to be an uncanny read, what looks good, what areas are traversable and what don't. what are you hearing right now? what does your index tell you? >> right now, neil, we had about 230 restaurants in the storm's path. we had 17 closed right now. we have nine of them open and serving food, but they do not have power so they would be a daylight only restaurant. and we have seven o...