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Update: New Time-Lapse Video Shows Snow Collapse of Minneapolis Metrodome
- Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:11pm by
Meredith Jessup
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As Scott noted earlier, the Minneapolis Metrodome’s inflatable roof collapsed under the weight of more than 17 inches of snow that have fallen on Minnesota. Newly released video captures the time-lapsed sinking of the roof until it’s eventual collapse, dropping snow onto the playing field below:
Sunday’s scheduled NFL game between the New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings is now set for Monday in Detroit, the closest indoor field to Minneapolis.
For Blaze readers in the Midwest, stay safe! There are still blizzard and heavy snow warnings for states across the Midwest as the snowstorm blows across the Great Lakes.
Conditions are so bad, the Salvation Army has reportedly canceled its holiday charity bell-ringing for the first time ever.
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Comments (85)
MarkBL
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:17pmAl Gore did it. He cut a hole in it. How was he supposed to explain all that warm global snow in Mpls? You can understand his position right? Right?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 7:43pmIt explains his second chakra…..
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:06pmAl Gore must’ve had a speaking engagement there yesterday… just to show more of his Global Warming “consensus” and to prove all of us nay-sayers, that the debate is over….
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:06pmThat is incredible video. Thank God no one was hurt. (No one was hurt, right?)
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:00pmHere comes the new “Little Ice Age” or “Snowmageddon!”.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 4:20pmSee! This is proof. Just like in the movie where global warming caused the whole world to freeze. That makes sense, right?
Report Post »SafeguardOurLiberty
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:29pmWould never live in MN. Hate snow. Get enough of it in PA. Ukkkkkk
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:28pmThe Engineering equivalence of Obamanomics….
Report Post »4wheels
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:28pmIt’s 55 and sunny here in Houston Texas. No snow, ice, just sunshine.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:52pm75 in the shade in Apache Junction Az. Not a cloud in the sky:)
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:31pm@ 4wheels: Hang in there Houstonites ….. Hurricane season will be back before you know it !!
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:33pm@untameable-kate: I envy you !!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:57pmIt’s OK Blazingpatriot, come April when our temps will be around a hundred degrees and then in July at 118 you will be loving the temps anywhere but here!
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 9:17pmAnd just a few short months till the sweaty bug season
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:41amI live in Ohio. We get nearly all of the above. Hell, we’ve had hurricanes even; I was without power for a week a few autumns ago because of Hurricane Ike’s leftovers. It blew down everything. Right now we have about 7 inches of snow (yeah, yeah, it’s nothing, I know) on the ground and its well below zero, with the 40 mph wind chill. In the summers, we don’t quite hit 115, but we do hit 95 with 90% humidity. That’s a lot worse than a dry 115 (I have been to NM and AZ quite a bit). We have a saying here; if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. It’s Ohio.
Report Post »stopprintn
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:19pmStorm coming, lets get out and drive in it……….. Duh !
Report Post »HemiOwner
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:14pmLIke a giant flour sifter.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:13pmChicago raves about their modern playing facilities at Wrigley Field.
Report Post »Jedi Master
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:13pmGeorge Bush did it on purpose!
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 4:36pmDon’t forget Dick Chaney and their rowboat.
Report Post »betsyyoung
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 8:50pmNo, Hugo Chavez says it is all caused by Capitalism. DUH!!!
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:11pmvictim of global warming
Report Post »psychguy
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:11pm@ proud…
No this is certainly not the first time.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia
Five times in the stadium’s history, heavy snows or other weather conditions have damaged the roof and caused it to deflate. On November 19, 1981, a rapid accumulation of over a foot of snow caused the roof to collapse, requiring it to be re-inflated. It deflated the following winter on December 30, 1982, again because of a tear caused by heavy snow. This was four days before the Vikings played the Dallas Cowboys in the last regular season game of the 1982 NFL season. That same winter, on April 14, 1983, the Metrodome roof deflated because of a tear caused by heavy snow and the scheduled Twins’ game with the California Angels was postponed. On April 26, 1986, the Metrodome roof suffered a slight tear because of high winds, causing a nine-minute delay in the bottom of the seventh inning vs the Angels.
On December 12th, 2010, at about 5:00 a.m., the roof collapsed as a result of more than seventeen inches of snow the previous day, sustaining three tears in the process. The Vikings and the New York Giants had been scheduled to play a football game that afternoon. The game had already been postponed to Monday night due to the Giants’ flight being stranded in Kansas City as a result of the Midwestern snowstorm. Due to the extent of damage to the roof, the NFL relocated the game to Ford Field in Detroit. Ticket-holders who could journey to Detroit were promised seats on the fifty yard line, while free tickets for the game would be given away at Ford Field on Monday morning.[
Report Post »grahampink
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:08pmglobal warming’s a bitch baby.
Report Post »prairiegirl
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:02pmWait until tonight. Minus 20 degrees expected. Finished shoveling..hunkering down for the rest of the day. 7 more weeks until my trip to Hawaii! We work hard and play hard up here.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:18pmYou guys who live in those kinds of conditions are old time tough. I live in Arizona in the valley and can’t imagine that type of cold. We are supposed to get up to eighty degrees today (doesn’t feel much like Christmas weather). I could do 115 degrees all summer before I could do -20.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 4:02pm@Untamable Kate
agreed here. Summer is more tolerable, such as it is, than snow mounds measured in feet of thickness anytime.
Report Post »BernieKittyCat
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:48amI love the snow! I would like to move from SE Michigan to Western Michigan to enjoy the lake effect snow. 80 degrees is WAY too hot for me, no matter the season. I guess I was built for the north.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:58pmThe Power of Global Warming is Awesome.
Report Post »Bad Thunder
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:51pmreminded me of Nov. 2
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 6:20pmLOL .. but funny how Pelosi/ Reid are trying to ignore it … along with the RINO’s!
Report Post »Always On Watch
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:50pmA blizzard is a fearful thing and a thing of such power.
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:50pmDid you see the guy scrambling for cover? Holy S!
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:49pmWell, who would have expected heavy snow in the upper midwest!
Time to fire those engineers.
Report Post »Ezekiel38
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:46pmWaoow!!!!
Report Post »Carrie3570
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:45pmThat is scary! I‘m glad there wasn’t a game going on, that would have been awful!
Report Post »joelackey92
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:45pmWow. Those buildings are built to hold up near anything and it folds like a napkin.
Report Post »joan k
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:43pmGood thing noone was in there at the time. Why those in northern state think these kinds of domes are safe from collapse is beyond me.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:57pmWhat the…? I never heard of an inflatable roof. I live in Az so something like this would probably not be tried (sun rot) but it just seems like a really cheap, really bad idea. Damn this global warming!
Report Post »Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:59pmAs far as I know this is the first time this has happened to the Metrodome in its almost 30 years since it was opened. Am I wrong?
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:06pmThis happened once in Pontiac MI at the Silverdome where the Lions once played. Afterwards, they installed more fans to create additional pressure on the roof and it never collapsed again.
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:11pmThe Lions Stadium, the Pontiac Silverdome collapsed in the 90′s
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HistoryNut
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:51pmActually, the Minnesota Metrodome has collapsed 6 times (including today). Four times due to the weight of snow, once because a back-hoe punched a hole in the dome while trying to scrape snow off to keep it from collapsing, and once from high winds (but that damage was very slight).
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 4:09pmIf it‘s happened or even came CLOSE it’s ONCE to many.. THANK GOD no one was in the place the panic would have hurt or kills hundreds..
Report Post »lordmalachdrim
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 6:26pmWe don’t seem to have any issues with that kind of dome roof in Syracuse, NY. And we get snow.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:43pmLead zeppelin.
Report Post »Atheist
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:47pmNow they are going to play in Detroit on Monday where the Lions fans will have a second chance to boo at Brett Favre.
The Atheist
JBaer
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 1:50pmAs it was stated in the local paper here: Snowmygawd!!!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:53pmGlobal warming…
Report Post »tgarrett369
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 2:53pmmaybe the senate should invest in an inflatable roof. on the left side of the place.
Report Post »Axe-Victim
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 3:04pm…when the Levy Breaks
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 4:01pmwould this be the old myth of Snowmageddon?
Report Post »Adam Coble
Posted on December 12, 2010 at 7:45pmuumm where is the global warming nuts. hehehehehehe
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:23amTrue Conservative should stop supporting Football in every way. Look at your principles, and then look at every aspect of the game. From the over payed players to the politicians who take tax payers money to pay for billionaires stadiums, to crooked deals with the unions. The last game I attended was years ago. The ticket cost me 75 bucks and when I got to the stadium they charged me 50 bucks to park. That’s like paying 10 bucks to see a movie, and once in the theater some guy charges another 10 bucks to start the movie. It’s not the money, it’s the point. That was the day I boycotted football for good.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:33am@C.C.D.
Football is as American as conservatism. I love the sport and refuse to let the liberals in it riun it for me.
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