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Thursday, May 23, 2013

FEMA has an informal "Waffle House Index" to gauge the severity of local disasters.
Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, came up with the
idea of the "Waffle House index" as an informal way of measuring the impact of a disaster. The chain, which has a large number of branches in tornado-prone areas, has a robust emergency management plan.
The index has three levels. If the local Waffle House is up and running, serving a full menu, a disaster is classed as green. If it is running with an emergency generator and serving only a limited menu, it is a yellow. If it is closed, badly damaged or totally destroyed, as during hurricane Katrina, it is a red.
A couple of thoughts. I've only been to a Waffle House once, and it made me pine for Buffalo's old Your Host* restaurants. That's not a good thing. Also, since Buffalo doesn't  have a Waffle House, what would FEMA use here? I propose Mighty Taco.

* When my brother, GJA, first visited Buffalo he thought the store signs on the ubiquitous Your Host
restaurants said "You're Lost". In many ways this was probably a better name for them, since just about the only time anyone ever went to one was after 4:00 AM, when the bars had all closed. Lost indeed.

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