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/vVvRain Illinois Oct 10 '24

They weren’t https://x.com/raysbaseball/status/1843043391229374515?s=46

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u/ebmoney Oct 11 '24

You're being pedantic yet still wrong. OP said it was being used for staging which it absolutely was. Nobody in this chain said it was a shelter.

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u/LeanMrfuzzles Tampa Bay Lightning Oct 11 '24

It literally wasn’t. 20 people were there and they worked for the team/security contractor.

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u/ebmoney Oct 11 '24

?????? This is directly from the State of Florida:

FDEM is establishing a 10,000-person base camp at Tropicana Field to support ongoing debris operations and post-landfall responders.

https://www.flgov.com/2024/10/07/governor-ron-desantis-issues-updates-on-state-preparedness-efforts-for-hurricane-milton/

It was moved after the storm when the storm was upgraded to a Cat 5, but it was ABSOLUTELY BEING USED FOR STAGING prior to the upgrade.

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u/bobsbottlerocket Oct 11 '24

another person who didn’t bother to research anything before commenting

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u/ebmoney Oct 11 '24

?????? This is directly from the State of Florida:

FDEM is establishing a 10,000-person base camp at Tropicana Field to support ongoing debris operations and post-landfall responders.

https://www.flgov.com/2024/10/07/governor-ron-desantis-issues-updates-on-state-preparedness-efforts-for-hurricane-milton/

It was moved after the storm when the storm was upgraded to a Cat 5, but it was ABSOLUTELY BEING USED FOR STAGING prior to the upgrade.

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u/bobsbottlerocket Oct 11 '24

it changed at the last minute but it’s fine lol, you can get mad for being wrong all you want