A.Y.F.S.M..?
Posted on 12/12/2010 7:32:11 AM PST by mandaladon
MINNEAPOLIS – A storm that spanned parts of eight states continued to dump heavy snow in the upper Midwest on Sunday, collapsing the Metrodome in Minneapolis and forcing numerous road closures.
The storm was moving eastward a day after it dumped 20 inches of snow in some places. A Sunday NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings had already been pushed to Monday because the Giants couldn't get to Minneapolis to play when the inflatable Metrodome collapsed Sunday. It's uncertain when that game will now be played.
A blizzard warning was in effect Sunday for Chicago and much of northern Illinois, all of Iowa, large sections of southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and smaller areas in North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri and Michigan, according to the National Weather Service. Most of the rest of the region was under a winter storm warning or a hard freeze watch.
Wisconsin authorities issued a statewide no-travel advisory Saturday, citing blizzard and winter storm warnings in nearly every county.
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Algore must be in town...
God is a Packers fan.
“Minn. Metrodome collapses in Midwest blizzard”
Global Warming is ruining football.
I tell you, much more of this Global Warming and we’re all going to find ourselves in a new ice age!
Wife and I went out on the lake in our fishing boat last Friday...
this has happened before....the roof is basically a soft tent and the dome is pressurized to keep it inflated.
no being a football fan, I thought it was scrapped after the Twins moved out a little over a year ago after the 09 division series.
Yep. We haven't had a lot of snow here in North-Central IL, but the blowing is causing white-out conditions. Wife didn't drive in to Rockford today for work. Another employee for the same business in DeKalb tried to get there from Rochelle, but stopped in Creston, 6 miles away, in a panic. She's back home now. Anyone trying to drive outside of residential areas should think again.
Yes, for decades, global-warming models have been predicting that increased evaporation off the Pacific would lead to increased snowfall in the Upper Midwest, you can’t use an individual event like this to claim as support. Fact is, this might have happened even without global warming.
If it isn't global warming, then it is the lockouts next season.
Symbolic of the Vikings’ year.
Intentionally deflated. From this article:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/12/12/snowstorm-sunday-metrodome-roof/
Officials at the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, which operates the dome, said two triangle panels on the north end of the stadium are damaged. Officials intentionally deflated the dome.
“You deflate it so you don’t lose the entire roof,” said Bill Lester, executive director of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission. “But that’s all we’re going to talk about until we get some more detail.”
First, “Global Warming” crashes the Metrodome roof....then later this week....Disney World will be hit by temps in the mid-20’s and possible wind chills near zero.
Where is Al Gore when you need him....
Favre gets another day to heal to keep his streak alive.
The game may be moved to another dome somewhere..Detroit, St. Louis, or Indy. Giants did not bring long undies so can’t play outdoors at TCF stadium (UofM stadium).
It’s way too cold here to play football outside anyway.
it should have an electric heating element. If properly powered it could handle it
With the storm dumping nearly two feet on parts of the Twin Cities, the snow was accumulating on the Metrodome roof Saturday night.
“It was an extraordinar situation involving Mother Nature that the Dome’s roof couldn’t handle,” Terwilliger said.
He said normal procedures were being followed Saturday, with workers on the roof itself using steam and hot water to melt and remove snow. Also, the heat inside the Dome was turned up and hot air was pumped into the in-between layers.
“That didn’t work,” Terwilliger said.
“Then it got dangerous for personnel up on the roof and we decided for the sake of safety to take them off,” he said.
So, now I won’t find out if I am in my Fantasy Football playoffs until later in the week? AP has been causing me problems all year.
Favre needs two more games to get the 300th consecutive game.
A Sunday NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings had already been pushed to Monday because the Giants couldn't get to Minneapolis to play when the inflatable Metrodome collapsed Sunday. It's uncertain when that game will now be played.The collapsing hopes of two teams, collapsed Metrodome, it couldn't be more apropos. Thanks mandaladon. :')
AdamSchefter
Vikings QB Brett Favre texted Ed Werder that, if today’s game had kicked off when scheduled, he would not have played.
5 minutes ago via web
Al gore’s climate model his theory is based on did not allow for any colder winters. It was supposed to progressively get warmer each year, hence less snow. Only after the weather pattern did not match the climate model did gore “adjust “ his model to explain the decrease in temperature.
So how big a heater would it take to warm a couple of acres of dome enough to melt the snow off?
Sure hope the NFL suffer a similar fate for scheduling the 2014 Super Bowl at the New Giants stadium.
You want to know the temperature of the snow T0 (guess -10C), the latent heat of melting of water c_l, the heat capacity of snow c, the top area of the dome A, the predicted snowfall depth per hour, and calculate it
Heehee, looks like God is a Favre fan. ;)
The NFL wants Favre to play, so they will move the game to another dome. Fox equipment will be already at Detroit from Pack game today. This is not good for the Giants who are still in the hunt. Philly next Sunday and at Pack after.
This liberal from up Minnesota said the temp is 2 degrees up where she is from.
I said well that disproves global warming.
And she said her usual liberal/democrat talking points about how global warming causes places to cool! LOL.
Then I added :”well actually an Ice Age is coming and your sate won’t be there anymore!”
This liberal from up Minnesota said the temp is 2 degrees up where she is from.
I said well that disproves global warming.
And she said her usual liberal/democrat talking points about how global warming causes places to cool! LOL.
Then I added :”well actually the media has been lying to destry caitalism and the truth is an Ice Age is coming and your state won’t be there anymore!”
just get a bunch of extension cords and a couple hundred hair dryers then......
No, this is catastrophic global climate change.
It’s caused by rich people who don’t share with the poor people, and can be stopped instantly by men in suits signing a piece of paper.
So... where will they play?
Back in New York maybe??
It didn't get installed, and during the life of the radar test program we were ice free, so I'll never know (thank the Lord).
Wow. Talk about an act of God!
A.Y.F.S.M..?
Yes, that is why we have Aaron Rodgers LOL!!!!
Sports Illustrated Fears Global Warming is ‘Changing the Sports World’
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/node/11267#ixzz17upxjvXo
I'm sorry, but that excuse fails the "too f'in bad" test. Why can't their equipment guys head back to NJ today, pack up the cold weather gear, and get it to Minnesota by the end of the day or tomorrow morning at worst???
Since when did "NFL" stand for "No Fowl-Weather League"?
In Cancun freezing his ample derriere off. LOL! HAHAHA!
We have seen the Metrodish here at least three other times in the early 80s.
Maybe a vicious conspiracy to force us to build a new stadium at taxpayer expense because the entertainment industry called football needs our support in the form of corporate welfare. Of maybe 17 inches of snow and 40 MPH winds. One or the other.
Wonder what this will do to the push for a new stadium at taxpayer expense, eh, Zigy?
Cheers!
This would be just a chilly game in Green Bay...
>>>just get a bunch of extension cords and a couple hundred hair dryers then......
Convene the state legislature at the dome and let them talk...
Yes, thus the change from Gluoobell Wharming to Clllimatttte Chaaange.
Global Cooling is coming! We need to burn more fossil fuels immediately!
LOL!!! Hope Rodgers kicks butt today. We live in Gnu Yak and since the Giants/Favre Pity Party got cancelled we can get the game here!
Part of the plan to get a new stadium at taxpayer’s expense.
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