[Atlas Sneezed]

If the winds blow hard enough on the Superdome structure and create extremely LOW PRESSURE zones, like wings on a plane create low pressure on the wing and cause it to lift UP, then the SuperDome structure will also create LIFT into the low pressure zone as the internal air pressure (under the wing-roof-walls) reacts to the lift...poof, one dome opens up like a JiffyPop!!

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Don't quit your day job. You are spreading emergency weather myths (about opening windows) and structural engineering ignorance.

For the roof to "pop", you would need a sudden pressure change that could not be relieved quickly enough by air going out the doors and other apertures. (Think bomb, not a hurricane approaching at bicycle speed.)

[spanalot]

If the winds blow hard enough on the Superdome structure and create extremely LOW PRESSURE zones, like wings on a plane create low pressure on the wing and cause it to lift UP, then the SuperDome structure will also create LIFT into the low pressure zone as the internal air pressure (under the wing-roof-walls) reacts to the lift...poof, one dome opens up like a JiffyPop!!

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Don't quit your day job. You are spreading emergency weather myths (about opening windows) and structural engineering ignorance.

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Well let me muddy things - I know that most storm tree damage happens just BELOW the crest of a mountain on the DOWNWIND side - and I am led to unsderstand this is due to turbulence or such.

Also, I recall that domes structures that do not have coners to create such turbulence can withstand more wind - e.g. the geodesic domes at the antartic

[GRRRRR]

I'm not going to argue with a lawyer....LOL!

I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express once AND I do some design work on the 'side'...I'm comfortable with my analysis.

G