Snow Roof Collapse Stadium

Snow caused the metrodome s roof to collapse just before the vikings game.

Snow roof collapse stadium.

The game originally scheduled for minneapolis sunday was canceled when the roof of the metrodome collapsed. The metrodome s roof collapsed four times in the 1980s. 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 inflatable roof of the metrodome sports stadium in the us mid western city of minneapolis collapsed on sunday after snowfall of 17in 43cm.

On sunday morning december 12 the roof collapsed from it. Property of the nfl and fox. On december 12 at about 5 00 a m the roof had a catastrophic collapse as three panels tore open. The teflon and fiberglass roof collapsing makes a ripping noise as air shoots into the stadium sending the roof plummeting toward the stadium seats.

However freezing temperatures turned that water into ice according to the star tribune. Snow began to pile throughout the night and at 5 a m. 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.

Those cameras captured the roof tearing and ice and snow falling into the stadium. 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 national football league has been forced to move. Just a day before the roof s collapse in 2010 a crew hosed hot water on the roof to melt the snow.