Minnesota Stadium Roof Collapse

Metrodome roof collapses cameras capture the metrodome roof caving in from too much snow during a blizzard in minneapolis minn.

Minnesota stadium roof collapse.

On december 12 2010 the much maligned metrodome finally gave out. Fox news minneapolis the minnesota vikings and new york giants will play on monday night in detroit after the metrodome s inflated roof collapsed in a snowstorm. The metrodome s roof collapsed four times in the 1980s. The game will kickoff at 7 20.

The roof which was made of fiberglass and fabric was supported by air pressure. The teflon and fiberglass roof collapsing makes a ripping noise as air shoots into the stadium sending the roof plummeting toward the stadium seats. That roof was held up mostly by air. Frigid air whipped through a desolate metrodome on monday as crews began inspecting the minnesota stadium s nearly three decades old roof after it collapsed under the weight of heavy snow that.

The metrodome s roof went more than 20 years after without any issues. After nearly a foot and a half of snow accumulated on top of the home of the nfl s minnesota vikings the roof caved in. It collapsed four times in the 1980s and had to be re inflated despite being built in the same decade. Everything was going as normal during the construction for the stadium expansion under a worker noticed a buckle in a key part of the support structure.

The metrodome s fiberglass roof infamously caved under the heft of deep snow in december 2010. One thing the new roof won t do according to everyone. That is until 2010. According to the christian science monitor the first collapse came in 1981 due to heavy snow.

The vikings played at the university of minnesota s tcf bank stadium for the 2014 and 2015 nfl seasons ahead of the planned opening of u s. Bank stadium in 2016.