The Weather Thread

[altmin]

my grandparents used to live in Venice. Apparently they are getting some of the peak storm surges.

 

[1moretimeagain]

Was the Tropicana Field roof intended to be able to withstand Florida?

 

[altmin]

St. Petersburg has had 18" of rain so far

 

[1moretimeagain]

 

[1moretimeagain]

 

[Rougemont]

Seems like the kind of thing someone would have thought to disassemble prior to one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the area, no?

 

[1moretimeagain]

Seems like the kind of thing someone would have thought to disassemble prior to one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the area, no?

I think standard procedure is to leave them up and let them spin with the wind. I’ve seeing comments stating it takes a week to take the crane down.

 

[circlesky88]

Looks like the peak storm surge was 5.1 feet at Naples

 

[BillOfRights]

Was the Tropicana Field roof intended to be able to withstand Florida?

Wasn't that the staging area for linemen or something?

 

[Granville]

Seems like the kind of thing someone would have thought to disassemble prior to one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the area, no?

They didn’t have enough warning time as it takes several days to take one down.

 

[uncgriff]

it seems the worst case scenarios have been largely avoided. Anxious to see how Sanibel fared and St Pete.

 

[uncsig]

Wasn't that the staging area for linemen or something?

Yes it was. They had something like 5,000 cots across the field. When the roof started tearing away, everyone inside had to move to the concourses. Crazy.

 

[1moretimeagain]

Yes it was. They had something like 5,000 cots across the field. When the roof started tearing away, everyone inside had to move to the concourses. Crazy.

One of the Florida PR people posted that the lineman were moved elsewhere before the storm landed.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Calheel]

They didn’t have enough warning time as it takes several days to take one down.

Several weeks. You simply can’t get large cranes down before a hurricane, unless you remove them in August and put them back up in December.

 

[Granville]

Three to ten days depending on the size and conditions.

 

[superrific]

Wasn't that the staging area for linemen or something?

Thought it was a stadium for baseball, not football.

 

[hedge]

it seems the worst case scenarios have been largely avoided. Anxious to see how Sanibel fared and St Pete.

Seems more like a best case scenario given the dire predictions. That's not a slam on the predictions, I don't think anybody (or, well, most people) we doing it simply to be alarmist, but the mayor of Tampa straight up said if you stay, you'll die. Safe to say nothing approaching that level of apocalypse occurred...

 

[Healing]

Thought it was a stadium for baseball, not football.

 

[Cappy the Stool Man]

"I definitely would have moved the Sox to St. Pete in 1990 if I had known it was going to be a retractable-roof stadium." - Jerry Reinsdorf