The Waffle House Index as of 10:00AM (ET). Steadily reopening for the Gulf Coast communities as fast and as safely as possible.
A huge thank-you to all the utility crews and first responders working hard to restore power and support those in need! 💛
The Waffle House Index is a disaster gauge used by FEMA. It treats whether nearby Waffle Houses are open as a quick read on how badly a storm has hit an area. It has three levels:
• Green — full menu. Power is on, damage is minimal, and the area is already moving toward recovery.
• Yellow — limited menu. The restaurant is on generator power, food is running low, or water/electricity is out. Conditions are degraded but not collapsed.
• Red — closed. Severe damage, flooding, or unsafe conditions. That is where response teams focus first.
Fox weather reporter Robert Ray live dramatically bracing from the wind, he had just come out of a leaning squat and random person nonchalantly walks by and says it’s a bit windy 🤣. I feel like I just came from a Shakespeare play!
This Victorian bathtub combined a bath, shower and body-spray system in a single unit.
Produced by Shanks & Co. of Barrhead, Scotland, the “Independent Plunge, Spray and Shower Bath” was designed to stand without a separate wooden enclosure. Its cast-iron tub was paired with a curved spray section, overhead shower and integrated plumbing fittings.
Versions of Shanks’ combined spray baths were already being exhibited in the 1880s, while illustrated sanitary catalogues around 1900 showed increasingly elaborate decorated models like this one.