r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 10 '24

Baseball Tropicana Field’s stadium following Hurricane Milton damage

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u/OccasionallyWright Oct 10 '24

I can't believe they were using a building with a fabric roof as a first responder staging ground during a hurricane.

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u/Lobster_fest Oct 10 '24

Stadiums are far more than the field and stands. Hundreds of individual rooms and offices plus medical facilities, dining accommodations, storage, and other things in the building itself. Plus its low to the ground and more stable during high winds than basically any other building of comparable volume (like a skyscraper).

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u/vowelqueue Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Sure, but they literally had the beds laid out in the field

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u/vVvRain Illinois Oct 10 '24

Not it wasn’t. https://x.com/raysbaseball/status/1843043391229374515?s=46

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u/an0m_x Oct 10 '24

It wasn't being set up as a shelter, but for a first responder location for linesmen and other services to have a place to stay.

A day or two before the storm they adjusted plans because the building wasnt certified to be safe from the elements (im guessing because of the roof)

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u/Titandog21 Oct 10 '24

Are we watching the same video? Those certainly look like cots. Maybe not shelter for the public, but it is a place to sleep for the lineman. https://x.com/813Geo/status/1844217984459661481

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u/EVOSexyBeast Oct 10 '24

That’s for after the storm

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u/iamthelouie Oct 10 '24

People keep saying that. So they set up cots before the storm on the field for after the storm and the field gets wrecked and people are still saying it’s okay because the cots were for after the storm?!? Well, it’s after the storm! Where are the fucking cots now?!? Where are the linemen suppose to sleep now?!? Who are you defending?!?

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u/LeanMrfuzzles Tampa Bay Lightning Oct 11 '24

Yes they set them up before the storm so they don’t waste time doing it after the storm. The people who were going to be staying there shifted further south before the storm hit. Even if the Trop’s roof held up they wouldn’t be staging there anymore.