Part of SuperDome Roof Blown off

[Kyle Masters]

According to MSNBC, the title explains it. Prayers for the 10k inside.

 

[Brett Adair]

Just some holes....not completely blown off.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Part of the roof at the New Orleans Superdome is gone. A 3-by-5-foot chunk is missing, and people are being ushered off the field of the stadium. A heavy mist is reported inside the Superdome.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/4908558/detail.html

 

[Rob_Davis]

A heavy mist is reported inside the Superdome.

:shock: Now THAT is significant!

I'm surprised they had people down on the field this late. Even if the field was being used as an initial processing point, I would have expected them to have people billeted into higher areas by morning.

Speaking of pulling all nighters, I wonder how many of those people got any sleep?

 

[Kyle Masters]

Part of the roof at the New Orleans Superdome is gone. A 3-by-5-foot chunk is missing, and people are being ushered off the field of the stadium. A heavy mist is reported inside the Superdome.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/4908558/detail.html

Like we were discussing before, this 3 by 5 foot hole is what worries me about 100 mph winds getting caught in there and making a stadium-sized boat sail out of the thing.

 

[B Ozanne]

They have everybody tucked up under the upper tiers, you know where it overhangs the lower levels.

 

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There are some still pictures of the holes in the roof on MSNBC now (taken by one of their reporters inside).....

 

[Kyle Masters]

Local station WDSU reporting "Breaking news: Superdome heavy roof problems" with a first-hand report from reporter who's there -- he's saying that 1/12th of the roof is now missing.

http://www.wdsu.com/video/4907831/detail.html

Copy from another thread.

Looks like it may get ugly.

From someone not familiar with the superdome, what kind of protection does that upper tier offer?

 

[Benjamin Sipprell]

Not sure where this MSNBC picture is ... but only reports I can gather is the lining to the roof is peeling off ... 3 x 5 hole is not significantly big and need no worry to panic ... that's the size of a school desk

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

If the roof fails, the entire building comes down. The superdome is engineered so that the roof acts as a sort of keystone. The roof is what keeps all the walls standing. Take it off, and everything falls down. Luckily, it seems that it weathered the storm.