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Several Injured by Falling Ice at Super Bowl Stadium

On Sunday, thousands of football fans will take their seats at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas — home of Super Bowl XLV.  But before kickoff, there’s a lot of work to be done to make the arena safe for spectators after freezing temperatures, ice and as many as 6 inches of snow hit northern Texas early Friday morning.

In the latest weather-related report out of Dallas, ice tumbling from atop the stadium has injured at least five bystanders who were all transported to area hospitals.

Specific injuries have not been identified, and it was not immediately clear how the accident happened. But video from Fox affiliate KDFW shows how heavy snow and ice built up on the stadium’s exterior pose a significant danger for people on the ground:

Cowboys stadium is the world’s largest domed stadium and is set to host the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers as they face off Sunday afternoon.

Several Injured by Falling Ice at Super Bowl Stadium

Update: The number of injured has risen to seven, with one of them in serious condition.

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  • blanco
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:03am

    I hope they sue jerry jones! He is a vile human being who thinks he is above the law!

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  • LoneStarGigger
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 4:45am

    Unless you use a safety engineer it’s hard to see future unsafe conditions. If they had used one they would have cordoned of a large area around this stadium.
    As for the Yankees saying we don’t know how to handle snow/ice, well we do. But I have seen many a Yank flee Northward when summer rolls in here on the Gulf Coast not knowing how in the world we can work in 98 deg temps and 98% humidity. But we can and do. We prefer that kind of weather in fact and loath the cold. But if you want a ******* contest for cold weather, I’ll stack up Amarillo or anywhere else in the Panhandle against anywhere up North for cold temps.
    That’s why Texas is so great folks. You can have 15 deg in the Panhandle and 75 deg in Laredo. Match that anywhere in Yankeeland.

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  • Nov_2nd
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 12:06am

    I told you global warming is dangerous!

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  • mharry860
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:16pm

    OK, snow and ice falling off a domed roof, let’s go fly a helicopter by it and video it. What a dumb*^$ move. Looks like a good way to clear it, but you might want to tell everyone to get the heck away.

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  • Grassman
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:28pm

    I’m just glad that they hold the super Bowl in a warm weather venue

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:20pm

    It’s all that global warming. Of course.

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  • psycodad36
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:09pm

    unfortunately the Buffalo Bills aren’t hosting this game,northernmost team,can‘t deny that it’s friggin cold there 10 months of the year.no ice cicles falling on fans,or even minisota,football should be played in the cold,to hell with ,(well it’s winter and the fans need some sunshine -so we’ll rape them on the ticket price and sell them that atleast they get a warm week off from work to boot.SUCKERS

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  • Jack007
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:49pm

    That will teach them to build a roof IAW Global Warming specs.

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  • Tim
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:38pm

    lol i’m glad they thought of that… typically no one has to think about that sort of thing here in TX

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    • Red Bubba
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 12:12am

      If you are designing a building, you have to realize that ice happens in Dallas once or twice a year.

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  • Silat
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:45pm

    The stadium can handle the load. It was built by a reputable firm known for building large facilities. And yes, we know how to handle ice and snow. At least we have enough sense to move far enough south away from communist states that make their people join unions and tax the living Hell out of them.

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    • Red Bubba
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:07pm

      … and it never occured to the reputable firm that people would be hurt by ice hurtling off the roof?

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:43pm

    I wonder if they can open the roof and then close it as fast as they can so send a small shockwave on the whole dome. I am sure when that roof moves it send some serious waves on the whole dome.

    I do like troyvar @ Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:02pm idea of a chopper down-wash It would not take much and not even get that close but the snow that would be blown up could blind the pilot so that might not be an option. May just get some guys with climbing gear and shovels if it does not all come down before Sunday. They don’t want any falling on the crowd when they are outside waiting to go inside.

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  • PlanetXenu
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:05pm

    to all the people who thought Katrina was gods wrath… looks like hates football too.

    ;)

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  • vennoye
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:54pm

    I lived in Dallas while they were building the new stadium. There is a lot of steel in that roof…….remember it is retractable.

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  • Tarheel Country
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:22pm

    I think Jerry Jones was just cursed for the entire NFL season.

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  • TexasGranny
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:18pm

    @Fried Okra – Thank you! I am from Mississippi too but have lived in Texas since 1951 and am ever so tired of all the so-called “intellectuals” assuming that just because you are from the south you must somehow be a “hick”. We have top rated universities located here in the south and diplomas from them are just as respected as the ones from the ivy league schools.

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  • Carl1
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:39pm

    Ice kills people. Let’s ban all ice from America.

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  • Deathfromabove
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:38pm

    Your all dumb, the dome will hold Ice/Snow and still be good for the game. I just hope nobody gets hurt from it falling off of it

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  • JaneDo
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:34pm

    Maybe God is trying to wake people up to the fact that SPORTS is part of the communist plan.

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  • FreedomFighter2006
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:06pm

    Global warming strikes again… and again… and… AGAIN… at the tune of some of the US’s worst snow storms in years. HA.

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    • integrican
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Global Warming is REAL……….1/2 of the globe warms as the other half cools…it happens every day!!!! It’s been proven!!!!! LOL

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    • Insipid
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:33pm

      They cant accurately predict the weather 15 days in advance yet we are supposed to believe they can predict the climate 10, 20, 50 years from now ?? Just follow the money !

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  • troyvar
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:02pm

    Try this. Clear the streets around the stadium and fly a chopper in pretty close. Maybe use one of those pilots who were washing off the bottoms of their craft in the lake last year.

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    • stacybernardslay
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:23pm

      If it stays well below freezing that will work, like a giant leaf-blower. But if it has thawed at any time and re-frozen – fail.

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  • stacybernardslay
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:53pm

    Pfft , sick of the bellyaching (mostly by easterners) that this weather is out of the norm for North America. Do you think that Washingtons troops at Valley Forge were eating shoe leather because the winter weather was so nice and game easy to shoot?!?!?!?!

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    • integrican
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:01pm

      +1 They also did it without Gore-tex boots and Fleece undies!!!!!

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  • integrican
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:49pm

    If you look very carefully, you can almost make out Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman on the roof with big brooms. Those must have been “union” bystanders.

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    • TxRebel
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:21pm

      And Glenn Beck was inside Cowboy Stadium with a REALLY REALLY REALLY long stick, poking the ceiling to loosen the ice…

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  • Restored One
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:42pm

    I would not take one step inside any dome in this kind of weather.

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  • SHTFMRadio.com -- Emergency Preparedness Radio Show
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pm

    I hope no one was seriously injured, this could have caused major damage with that ice.

    Wow that’s crazy i would hate to be the insurance company.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:40pm

      I wonder if it was the Helicopter that caused the ice to start moving ??

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:40pm

    The question is, will the roof cave in during the BIG GAME?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:51pm

      Those poor people inthe south don’t know how to deal with snow and ice. I guess they never expected to have any snow/ice when they built it. Up here, where it DOES snow every year, we have things on roofs that break up ice as it slides off and we know better than to stand under the overhang of a roof.

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    • integrican
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:53pm

      Heheeheee! Yeah, I wonder what type of “snow load” figures wet into the engineering process on a stadium in Texico.

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    • so broke
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:55pm

      I can almost guarantee you that this kind of roof was not designed to withstand the tons of snow piled on it. Hopefully it will all slide off (safely) or melt prior to the big game this Sunday.

      http://super-bowl.mobileweb.tel

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:06pm

      Will the roof cave in? Probably not, because it slid off the roof.

      I watch the Texas border at http://www.blueservo.net, and one of the deputies told me that it was 16 degrees where he was, and he wasn’t in northern Texas. The thermometer on my computer said it was 37 where I am. A friend told me it was colder in Texas than in Alaska.

      The weather map that the deputy emailed me showed sleet and snow all the way down to Brownsville at the Mexico border along the Texas Gulf coast. Some of the camera lenses were frozen over.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:39pm

      Probably not, but last week I read Al Gores’ latest blog where he is still saying this is all caused by global warming. LOL We could have glaciers advancing into America and these nuts would still be blaming it on global warming, what nuts.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:50pm

      We shall see. Hope they have enough sense to clear the roof as much as possbile before the game commenses.

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    • Fried Okra
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:56pm

      @A.T. Irrelevant… let me get this totally understood. Because of a piece of ice falling off and injuring a few people… you can equate that into the ENTIRE South as being not accustomed to ice and snow… AND being too dumb for standing under an overhang of a roof. Good grief…

      Yes, we don‘t have a lot of snow here yearly and as a result we don’t buy a ton of snow equipment. That’s called common sense. But, we are use to ice storms here as this is what we typically can see. As for example ….. last night.

      “I guess they never expected to have any snow/ice when they built it.”. Do you even know what you’re talking about? It’s called Snow Load. I‘m sure the AE Firm that designed the stadium wasn’t two rednecks that lived down a dirt road.

      How about saying the same dumb comment (replace snow/ice for blizzard) for the Minnesota Vikings Stadium after it failed from a snow load?

      Yes, I’m a Civil Engineer and from Mississippi. Yes, we had text books and even pencils at College, No, we don’t all walk around without shoes.

      Congratulations “Irrelevant”, you win the dumbest post of the day.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:20pm

      I know…let’s all just live in a bubble shielded from all dangers….pls

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:52pm

      interesting documentary GASLAND
      http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=gasland+the&tnr=20&b=61

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    • hey ohms
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:00pm

      Yeah cause ice and snow doesnt slide up north; nor does it fall out of trees. it was 78 degrees today in florida; but dont pitty us. we will make it through this winter somehow :-o lmao

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:07pm

      Sorry!

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    • MareeClaire
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:46pm

      Who caused the falling ice – the Muslim Brotherhood or Frances Fox Piven???

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    • Bob Devine
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 3:34am

      There is more dander inside the dome than outside. With the large clean areas and other areas still loaded that causes a very strong and unbalanced stress on the structure. It is much more likely to cave in now than before. The weather is supposed to get warmer. Lets hope it is all gone by game time.

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    • scaldisnoel
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:49am

      BOB DEVINE, you said, “With the large clean areas and other areas still loaded that causes a very strong and unbalanced stress on the structure. It is much more likely to cave in now than before.”

      Unless you were one of the design engineers or have specific engineering knowledge about the structure, you have no idea whether that is true or not. Although Dallas does not get large amounts of snow every year, they do get it often enough, and get ice storms regularly as well. These kinds of loads, including unbalanced loads, are designed for every day. Although engineers cannot anticipate every possible eventuality, the idea that they didn’t consider many of the likely unbalanced loading scenarios in their design is preposterous. If there was a likelihood of collapse because a particular unbalanced loading condition was not considered, they certainly wouldn’t be allowing people inside the building right now.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:30pm

      and we can’t have a Superbowl in the North East because of winter?

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