Football Stadium Roof Collapse Snow

Holes in the collapsed metrodome roof can be seen in minneapolis after a snow storm dumped 17 inches on the city snow covers the minnesota vikings football field after 17 inches of.

Football stadium roof collapse snow.

The national football league has been forced to move. Snow causes metrodome roof collapse the new york giants and the minnesota vikings were scheduled to play sunday afternoon and the collapse has obviously delayed the game. However freezing temperatures turned that water into ice according to the star tribune. This was four days before the vikings played the dallas cowboys in the last regular season game of the 1982 nfl season.

On november 19 1981 a rapid accumulation of over a foot of snow caused the roof to collapse requiring it to be re inflated. On sunday morning december 12 the roof collapsed from it. Property of the nfl and fox. The giants landed in the motor city sunday to play the minnesota vikings monday night.

Snow began to pile throughout the night and at 5 a m. The game originally scheduled for minneapolis sunday was canceled when the roof of the metrodome collapsed. Just a day before the roof s collapse in 2010 a crew hosed hot water on the roof to melt the snow. The inflatable roof of the metrodome sports stadium in the us mid western city of minneapolis collapsed on sunday after snowfall of 17in 43cm.

Minneapolis the inflated roof on the metrodome roof collapsed early sunday morning under the weight of snow and ice produced in a storm that hit the twin cities over the weekend leading to. A powerful storm has dumped mounds of snow across the upper midwest closing highways canceling flights and collapsing the roof of the minnesota vikings st. Snow caused the metrodome s roof to collapse just before the vikings game.