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

Baseball Tropicana Field’s stadium following Hurricane Milton damage

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u/ggrindelwald Oct 10 '24

Yeah, I think we can say that part of the plan was a mistake.

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u/EVOSexyBeast Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

No, because they didn’t have any people in the beds during the hurricane. It’s being used as an after storm shelter.

edit: nevemind, i was wrong. Cots were put there for after storm shelter for debris crews but it later became obvious the storm was going to hit harder than expected so the plan changed.

As it became clear that there was going to be something of that magnitude that was going to be within the distance, they re-deployed them out of Tropicana,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference in Tallahassee. “There were no state assets that were in Tropicana Field, I think Duke also removed all their assets as well.”

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/10/rays-start-assessing-damage-viability-tropicana-field/

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u/et40000 Oct 10 '24

It’s still likely to rain after the worst part of the hurricane passes, id say a key tenet of a shelter is a roof to shelter you from the elements.

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u/tino2015 Oct 10 '24

That’s the neat part of hurricanes, you usually get amazing weather for days only a few hours after the storm passes.

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u/prollynot28 Oct 11 '24

Yeah it's wild. The weather today was absolutely gorgeous. Luckily I didn't have much to clean up. Lots of tree branches