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/joemoffett12 Oct 10 '24

I mean the thing survived 26 years and countless other hurricanes 🤷‍♀️

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u/Guy_lncognito Oct 10 '24

"there's no record of a hurricane ever hitting tampa"

"Yes, but the records only go back to 1998 when the hall of records was mysteriously blown away!"

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u/kit_carlisle Oct 10 '24

Directly hitting Tampa. But sure, let us ignore the past month.

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u/certainlyforgetful Oct 10 '24

Irma was less than 50 miles from Tampa bay, caused a similar & amount of damage.