Thursday, May 23, 2013
FEMA has an informal "Waffle House Index" to gauge the severity of local disasters.
* 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.
Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, came up with theA 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.
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.
* When my brother, GJA, first visited Buffalo he thought the store signs on the ubiquitous Your Host
// posted by Bill @ 9:18 AM 
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