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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 Waffle House Index was penned by Craig Fugate, the former head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Fugate helped develop the metric while serving at Florida’s Department of ...
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.
The "Waffle House Index" refers to an unofficial, but staggeringly accurate, metric used to judge the severity of a storm — based on if Waffle House is open, closed or operating with a limited menu.
Waffle House lovers may also be familiar with the Waffle House Index, created by Craig Fugate the former emergency manager for Alachua County, Florida who President George Bush appointed director ...