Snow Roof Collapse Stadium

However freezing temperatures turned that water into ice according to the star tribune.

Snow roof collapse stadium.

The roof of the pontiac silverdome collapsed monday under the weight of an overnight snowfall sending three detroit lions players james jones gary danielson and eric hipple scurrying for cover. Just a day before the roof s collapse in 2010 a crew hosed hot water on the roof to melt the snow. The giant inflatable roof above the minneapolis metrodome collapsed on sunday under the weight of a massive snowstorm that swept across the upper midwest. The night before a fox sports crew setting up for an upcoming vikings game noticed water leaking from the roof and kept their cameras on all night.

The teflon and fiberglass roof collapsing makes a ripping noise as air shoots into the stadium sending the roof plummeting toward the stadium seats. The national football league has been forced to move. Those cameras captured the roof tearing and ice and snow falling into the stadium. Conventional air pressurized stadiums such as the metrodome whose inflatable roof collapsed under the weight of snow in december are rare in the u s and may be accidents waiting to happen by.

Snow caused the metrodome s roof to collapse just before the vikings game. The 580 000lbsroof which is made of. On sunday morning december 12 the roof collapsed from it. On december 12 at about 5 00 a m the roof had a catastrophic collapse as three panels tore open.

Property of the nfl and fox. According to the christian science monitor the first collapse came in 1981 due to heavy snow. The giants landed in the motor city sunday to play the minnesota vikings monday night. The metrodome s roof collapsed four times in the 1980s.