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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

What The Fuck Wednesday: The Waffle House Index

Welcome back to What The Fuck Wednesday, the prime location to read about products, items, and events that make your head snap around and your mouth utter the phrase "What the fuck is that?"

Last week, we talked about the Waffle House Terror Plot and I thought nothing but nothing involving the Waffle House could ever top that. I was wrong. Rys's husband told me about the FEMA Waffle House Index. I seriously thought he was bullshitting me when he told me that FEMA judges the severity of a disaster by the condition of the local Waffle Houses so I googled it. I found a Wall Street Journal article detailing it. I found a Huffington Post article detailing it. But, best of all, I found a Colbert Report video talking about it.
This is seriously about the most fucked up thing I've heard in a long time...basing the severity of a disaster even partially on the condition of the Waffle Houses.


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Wow... who knew? Just off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of problems with that concept... just a couple.
Oh my Lord! That has to be seriously the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! And now I have an equally silly question for them: what about places that have no Waffle House? If a tornado rips through and destroys everything around, is it not considered severe because there's no Waffle House to judge it by? Or, if only there is only very limited damage, is it considered really bad because there is no Waffle House? I need to know this shit because our town has no Waffle House! How the hell am I supposed to know if our disasters are severe or not?!?! (I'm working on winning the Sarcasm Queen Awards =D)
That is hilarious. I gotta give it to them, though, at least in the case of hurricanes or tornadoes. Those short, squat little buildings are hard for wind to take down.

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