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Why FEMA watches the Waffle House menu during hurricanes
NY Post ^
| 09/13/2014
| Tamar Lapin
Posted on 09/13/2018 11:09:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The agency coined the term Waffle House Index during the 2004 hurricane season to measure the effect of a natural disaster on an area.
If the eatery shutters or limits menu items during or after a hazard they know the community took a major hit.
The index has three color-coded levels: Green means everything is fine, at least in the Waffle House; yellow is when the restaurant serves a limited menu, meaning the area lost power or theyre running low on supplies; and red is if its closed, showing the area has been hit hard.
The Waffle House test just doesnt tell us how quickly a business might rebound it also tells how the larger community is faring, FEMA said in a 2011 blog post.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: fema; hurricane; hurricanes; wafflehouse; wafflehouseindex
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:09:55 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Private response will ALWAYS be better than Fed.gov bureaucrats.
Just appoint Waffle House supply-chain managers to FEMA management. problem solved.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:12:39 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:17:03 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:17:56 AM PDT
by
Notthereyet
(Notthereyet)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:19:10 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
To: BenLurkin
They can get data on waffle house sales but have no other way to see how the community is doing before/during/after a hurricane?
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:27:47 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: PGR88
Once you appoint these high performing managers to government jobs where they can’t be fired for non performance, they will quickly cease to be high performing.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:34:41 AM PDT
by
Valpal1
To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I syrup everyone down there comes through okay.
Walmart's guy predicted the exact course that Katrina took and got the chain ready, shipping lots of relief-type supplies, as well as ammo for the cops.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:38:29 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: BenLurkin
They had better not run out of my “smothered and covered” hash browns!
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:41:04 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: pepsi_junkie
They can get data on waffle house sales but have no other way to see how the community is doing before/during/after a hurricane? What, you prefer that they use a more complicated and less reliable statistic? The fact that they call it the Waffle House Index implies that they have other statistics. But you have to admit, the Waffle House Index is meaningful and understandable.
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posted on
09/13/2018 12:21:42 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
To: DannyTN
There isn’t a Waffle House anywhere around here but a cat wind scale would work.
Did the Waffle House wait until the last minute to stock up like everyone else?
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posted on
09/13/2018 12:43:25 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Notthereyet; bgill
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posted on
09/13/2018 12:45:05 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Notthereyet; bgill
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posted on
09/13/2018 12:45:05 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: TADSLOS; Slings and Arrows; KoRn; DocRock; Gefn; miss marmelstein; JSteff; FreedomPoster; LucyT; ...
FReepmail me or KoRn to get on or off the Waffle House Ping List.
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posted on
09/13/2018 3:33:01 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
To: stylecouncilor
If Waffle House were open at the height of it, I’d go.
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posted on
09/13/2018 5:33:38 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: BenLurkin
The Waffle House test just doesnt tell us how quickly a business might rebound it also tells how the larger community is faring, FEMA said in a 2011 blog post. Ring of truth to this one...
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posted on
09/13/2018 9:26:04 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Deep State power peaked during the McCain funeral - it's down from here on out.)
To: GOPJ
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posted on
09/13/2018 9:33:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Chode; SkyDancer; Squantos; snooter55; Delta 21; nickedknack; Tax-chick
Here Kitty- Here Kitty-Kitty
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posted on
09/13/2018 9:42:04 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
(congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
To: mabarker1
Texas Ratio ..... nuthin else matters !
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:15:16 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: BenLurkin
The Salvation Army is already poised to go in after the flood recedes, praise the Lord. FEMA should just get out of the way and let them do their thing.
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posted on
09/14/2018 12:59:59 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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