Video: Metrodome roof collapse
From ABC News…
The inflatable roof of the Minnesota Vikings’ stadium collapsed Sunday and roads were closed throughout the upper Midwest as a storm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow in some areas continued to crawl across the region….
The Metrodome’s Teflon roof collapsed after Minneapolis got more than 17 inches of snow. No injuries were reported. The snowfall that ended Saturday night was one of the 5 biggest in Twin Cities history…
Our dear moderator Carla, who lives in the vicinity, reports the snow has stopped but “church services cancelled. Watching Blues Clues until my brain explodes.”
We’ll keep you company, Carla!
Dec.12, 2010 12:41 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Blessedly, nobody was injured!
The home front. Check this out! :)
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Hi Carla,
Thanks for the video link!
Do you like the big snows or do you tolerate them because you have to? (Of course it’s quite obvious that your kids love them.) :)
Blowing snow today in Chicago but thankfully not much accumulation.
LL
I was raised in ND and LOVE the snow!!! Honest! :) The 25-30 below windchills? Not so much.
I agree, Gerard, thank God no one was injured. That’s some of the coolest video I’ve ever seen. Wow.
Yay! I start my move up to the frozen north in about 17 days! Wish me luck…looks like I’m gonna need it…
>_<
Yay xalisae!! :) Walking in a Winter Wonderland……….
Two words, my dear friend Xalisae:
Snow blower.
(We don’t have one, yet. We just shovelled ourselves out of 4-foot drifts today. Ick.)
Living just a couple of miles away from the dome and having just ventured out after shoveling out from under almost 2 ft of snow…I have this to say…Global Warming…really where?
It been amazing to experience a Minnesota winter like I remember from childhood.
By the way most Catholic Churches did not cancel mass…that is so very rare. Tonight church was full and the priest talked about coming out in the conditions we did to get to church because Catholics believe the Eucharist is the true body and blood of Christ. That is why we go to church…not to just hear the word of God but to partake in His body and blood.
Hi Xalisae,
You may want to splurge on a good down jacket and warm boots, and ice-skates! You’ll be fine. :)
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Anne Marie,
I know of one Catholic mass that was cancelled because the priest couldn’t get there due to bad weather. I’m sure there were many disappointed parishioners. Are you doing any outdoor ice-skating in Minn.?
Temperature right now? -8 Windchill is -23 High today? 3
School is 2 hours late.
And now back to you, Jill.
Reporting from Chicago: Soldier Field’s roof didn’t collapse yesterday, maybe because there is none, but the team did.
Jill,
I was going to comment but didn’t want to rub it in. The NE patriots taught the Bears how to play in the snow yesterday :)
Jill,
LOL!
Jasper,
You hit the nail on the head. The Bears looked like a bunch of kids playing in the snow. Painful to watch.
Janet as I said it is very rare that mass is ever cancelled and this weekend I recall one Sat. night mass (in my diocese) was cancelled but I didn’t hear of any Sunday masses being cancelled. Our Lady of Lourdes was packed at 7pm mass.
The dome has collasped about 5 times since it opened. This is the first time, I know of that is was captured on film because the news crew was there taping the process of using hot air to melt the snow off the roof for the next day game day.
Not ice skating yet but will, also downhill skiing and will try snowshoeing for the first time. can’t wait.
Just one thought: GO GIANTS! :)
Peg,
:)
Hi Ann Marie,
I am not Catholic. I appreciated that our pastors decided to cancel services. We have people that drive 20-30 min from rural WI areas and they didn’t want them to risk their lives in 18+ inches of blowing snow. I94 in WI was also closed which was a huge factor.
“The dome has collasped about 5 times since it opened. This is the first time, I know of that is was captured on film because the news crew was there taping the process of using hot air to melt the snow off the roof for the next day game day.”
That’s something I hadn’t heard on the news. I guess they won’t be trying that again. :)
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Wow Carla, that was some crazy weather you had up there!
Crazy weather?
Indeed! :)
Hi Carla,
If a priest is present mass will go on. People will make their own decision whether they make it into mass or not for the most part. As Catholics we celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist…mass. Liturgy comes from the Greek word leiourgia, which means “a public duty” or “a public action” Catholics believe Mass is the one holy Sacrifce of Jesus Christ…the same Sacrifice that happened just over 2000 years ago…not over and over again but the same one. So from my understanding it’s not something that is really ever cancelled unless a priest can’t get there. I appreicate it knowing that even if I can’t get to mass a priest is still saying mass and offering up prayers and the Eucharist as Christ instructed us to do.
Are you coming to the March for Life in St. Paul on Jan. 22nd?
Ann Marie
Hi Janet,
That is how they get snow off the dome but I just heard the weight of the snow on the dome was like 4 or 5 jumbo jets sitting on it, that is why is caved in. School was canacelled today in the Twin Cities because there is so much snow that the buses could not get through plus it is so cold.
It was the first snow day in a really long time.
Peg, are you from North Jersey or something? XP Down here everyone roots for the Eagles!