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The Waffle House Index is a metric named after the ubiquitous Southern US restaurant chain Waffle House known for its 24-hour, 365-day service. [1] Since this restaurant always remains open (except in extreme circumstances), it has given rise to an informal but useful metric to determine the severity of a storm and the likely scale of ...
Waffle House's Tuesday post showed a map of the Waffle House Index with more than two dozen Florida restaurants shuttered due to the storm, with the locations spread between Tampa, St. Petersburg ...
The index, which is unofficially used by FEMA to determine the damage in an area, uses three colors to determine the severity of the aftermath based on Waffle House’s behaviors, according to FEMA.
The concept for the Waffle House Index came about in 2004 when a FEMA team surveying the damage from Hurricane Charley noticed Waffle House was the only restaurant open in many storm-ravaged areas. AP
Waffle House, Inc. is an American restaurant chain with over 2000 locations in 25 states in the United States. [4] The bulk of the locations are in the Midwest and the South, where the chain is a regional cultural icon. [5]
The Waffle House Index is an unofficial term first used by Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate after the Joplin tornado in May 2011, according to Accuweather.
“If Waffle House is closing, it’s time to get out of there.”
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