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America moment: being forced to rely on a burger company’s app to find out where power outages are joker-amerikkklap

Link to the tweet

Oh, and of course we can not forget that said burger company is using this massive natural disaster/tragedy as an opportunity to do Brand Twitter™ PR and marketing in the replies to the original tweet!

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Stolen honor from Waffle House

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Waffle House Index

The metric is unofficially used by FEMA to inform disaster response.

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The Waffle House Index is a metric named after the ubiquitous Southern US restaurant chain Waffle House known for its 24-hour, 365-day service. Since this restaurant always remains open, it has given rise to an informal but useful metric to determine the severity of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. It was coined by former administrator Craig Fugate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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