{"id":461395,"date":"2026-10-09T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461395\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:50:11","slug":"using-waffle-house-to-track-hurricane-damage-the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-the-week-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461395\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Waffle House to track hurricane damage: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-246779 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GBU-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly logo in blue and white\" width=\"585\" height=\"358\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week&#8217;s news, we turn to a rotating panel of &#8220;non-experts&#8221; to parse <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/good-bad-ugly\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/a> of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:<\/p>\n<p>Our panel of non-experts this week includes:<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16037,44088,16036,4045,19876,56,58,4978,57,157611,16973,66,32203,223,4979,90867,7895,65128],"class_list":["post-461395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bad-and-ugly","tag-charles-kuffner","tag-good","tag-hisd","tag-hisd-takeover","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-hurricane-isaias","tag-hurricanes","tag-local","tag-marcus-davis","tag-news","tag-shows","tag-tessa-barrera","tag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","tag-waffle-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}