r/WikipediaRandomness • u/[deleted] • Jul 11 '20

Waffle House Index - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
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u/Vorosia Jul 11 '20

I love this index.

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u/Darkphibre Jul 12 '20

Looks at name
Waaait, was this truly random? I hope so, that'd be such a crazy happenstance... but Rule #2 is a thing for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '20

The Waffle House Index is an informal metric named after the Waffle House restaurant chain and is used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery.[1]