[ninergold3]

Hubby says this is the second biggest collapse in Minnesota this year - right after Brett Farve.

[digger48]

I see a new Billion Dollar stadium in the MN taxpayers future.

[Lysandru]

How in the F&^% does one build a domed stadium in Minneapolis and not give it a roof sturdy enough to take 16 in. of snow?

[pillut48]

Why did the articles about this say that the thing was deflated on purpose to *prevent* collapse??

[bigbob]

The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome - - it should come as no surprise that the collapse began on the left...

[lacrew]

Its deflated before for snow or wind, like a half dozen times.

[earlJam]

Same engineering firm that designed the Interstate bridge that collapsed a couple of years ago?

[lacrew]

Its deflated before for snow or wind, like a half dozen times.

[dfwgator]

So are they going to get it fixed before the next game?

[fish hawk]

Speaking as just a lowly lifetime carpenter, once again you see the idiocy of high paid architects in action. One would think that who ever designed this dome would have taken in snow lode. For crying out loud, it's Minnesota people. You figure the heaviest snow in past history and than project that sometime in the future, it might get a worse storm and build it to those specifications. My whole life as a carpenter has lead me to the conclusion that Architects have wet dreams and then put them down on paper. I was once given a difficult assignment to build but the details on the print were not specific. I built it using common sense and later the architect stopped by and actually said to me: I wondered how you were going to do that. Yeah, it came out nice. true story.

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[Carbonsteel]

Its a good thing a game wasn’t going on when this happened.

[BenLurkin]

You wouldn’t want to playing under that when it happened.

[Java4Jay]

The Metrodome cost $68 million to build—roughly $2 million under budget

[Java4Jay]

The Metrodome will become a snow bowl until springtime.

[Jean S]

Do you think they’ll ever use that stadium again?

[MozartLover]

[READINABLUESTATE]

The Vikings suck so bad, the roof caved in.

[N. Theknow]

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