Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2016 3:19:24 GMT -8
I saw this on the news. Perhaps storms should be graded on the waffle scale instead of the fujita scale. They could be categorized as W1-W5. Example: Hurricane Leroy made landfall this morning and is currently a category W4 storm....
FEMA uses Waffle House to gauge storm severity
Oct 7, 2016 03:28 PM
(CNN) - FEMA has what might be considered an unusual way to unofficially predict how bad a natural disaster could be.
It's called the "Waffle House Index." Any time a Waffle House shuts down, it suggests a really bad storm with devastating effects on the economy.
"In Florida for a long time one of the things we kind of observed was Waffle Houses were usually the first things opened - if they even closed," FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said. "And so if a Waffle House is open, we knew it wasn't too bad to keep going. If it was open with a limited menu, we probably had a lot of power outages and needed to be prepared to support mass care."
FEMA uses Waffle House to gauge storm severity
Oct 7, 2016 03:28 PM
(CNN) - FEMA has what might be considered an unusual way to unofficially predict how bad a natural disaster could be.
It's called the "Waffle House Index." Any time a Waffle House shuts down, it suggests a really bad storm with devastating effects on the economy.
"In Florida for a long time one of the things we kind of observed was Waffle Houses were usually the first things opened - if they even closed," FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said. "And so if a Waffle House is open, we knew it wasn't too bad to keep going. If it was open with a limited menu, we probably had a lot of power outages and needed to be prepared to support mass care."
