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US Hurricane Damage - Waffle House Index

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Original – Aftermath of a severe hurricane showing barstools bolted to the ground and a sign as the only remaining evidence of the restaurant.

Reason

Subject Usefulness: Non-meteorological indices helping to describe the relative enormity of a hurricane impact.

Technical: good framing, very high resolution, good contrast, immediately striking display of the topic (aftermath of a severe storm), image taken by a well known and celebrated photographer who has donated her entire work to the Library of Congress with free license, image applicable to other articles / illustrative of various storm-related encyclopedic articles / useful into future entries related to catastrophic storms

Articles in which this image appears

Waffle House Index

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Contents/Technology_and_applied_sciences
Help me find a better category here; I can't find anything related to disaster response, crisis management, storms, etc. Thank you.

Creator

Carol M. Highsmith

• Support as nominator – Darkskysunflowers (talk) 01:42, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose - a mere snapshot (yes, pros take them, too) which does not convey the massive destruction of Katrina. --Janke | Talk 10:16, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

  This image is not illustrating Katrina, but the Waffle House Index Darkskysunflowers (talk) 16:51, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

  • I know. But it conveys very little info nevertheless. Not among Wiki's "best" IMO. --Janke | Talk 17:31, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose Aside from this not being a particularly great photo (in itself not a disqualifying issue for a Wikipedia FP), I don't think it illustrates the topic well as it depicts a devastating disaster that no business could survive. The 'Waffle House Index' is largely a reference to the chain's reputation for staying open or quickly reopening in the face of natural disasters, so an photo showing a Waffle House open despite destruction around it would better illustrate the topic. Nick-D (talk) 08:06, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

  Really good point. Nomination withdrawn. Darkskysunflowers (talk) 08:59, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose – Per previous. Meh. – Sca (talk) 13:36, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:45, 12 October 2022 (UTC)