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Originally Posted by Toonage
Kind of surprised they're still playing the game in Florida, or is that hurricane going to miss them? They cancelled their ring ceremony yesterday.
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I can speak to that. It's touch and go for some inclement weather and tropical storm conditions. If the teams are already here, there shouldn't be any travel issues. South Florida (Miami to Palm Beach area) is not supposed to feel any serious impacts from the storm, but it's still possible to have some issues with power outages etc. They play this one game at home tonight, but it could be rescheduled. Then they're on the road for a week, so it shouldn't have any bearing after tonight.
As for Tampa...I don't think they'll be playing games anytime soon in their arena. They already cancelled last night's pre-season game against Nashville. They don't play at home again until Saturday, but I imagine that all three games next week will be rescheduled or played at an alternate site. That would give them until the 24th for the area to recover.
It's gonna be bad. They are forecasting 9 feet plus of storm surge in the entire Tampa Bay area. That alone will make this a catastrophic storm.