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The Waffle House Index


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2016 Oct 7, 8:23pm   1,096 views  2 comments

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

The Waffle House Index is an informal metric used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. The measure is based on the reputation of the Waffle House restaurant chain for staying open during extreme weather and for reopening quickly, albeit sometimes with a limited menu, after very severe weather events such as tornadoes or hurricanes.

The Index has three levels, based on the extent of operations and service at the restaurant following a storm:

Green: the restaurant is serving a full menu, indicating the restaurant has power and damage is limited.
Yellow: the restaurant is serving a limited menu, indicating there may be no power or only power from a generator or food supplies may be low.
Red: the restaurant is closed, indicating severe damage.

On Thursday October 6th 2016, the Index reached red when all Waffle House restaurants on Florida's I-95 between Titusville and Fort Pierce were closed. This was caused by Hurricane Matthew ravaging Caribbean islands and the East coast of the United States.

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1   NDrLoR   2016 Oct 7, 8:31pm  

I wish we had a Waffle House, I love their small grid waffles so much better than Belgian waffles. I like to have a nice little cream cup filled with melted butter sitting right in the middle of the waffle.

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