[News] Tampa Bay Lightning: How will Hurricane Milton impact the Amalie Arena?

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Locke

People just need to wake up and realize that Bill Gates controls the weather! And Chemtrails? Yeah...thats him too.

He's not a Lizard-Man though, he's just their patsy!

You want to know why you don't get enough Ranch Sauce with your chicken wings? Oh yeah, thats Bill too.

Your Thanksgiving Turkey is dry? Thats Bill.

He's behind it all!!

He's behind you....right now...

I always knew that saxophone was for hurricane conjuring

[CSharp]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

WTF is wrong with you? Doubling down on an extremely callous take, even after confirmed deaths are beginning to come out? Who raised you?

@Coach
@EN FUEGO
@bdubbs
@butterfly
@The Yen Man
@Cali Panthers Fan

Jesus, chill out! What was originally an innocent thread with multiple sarcasms is now turning into a gang bashing frenzy. Maybe y'all should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya to make yourselves feel good at the end of the day.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CSharp

@Coach
@EN FUEGO
@bdubbs
@butterfly
@The Yen Man
@Cali Panthers Fan

Jesus, chill out! What was originally an innocent thread with multiple sarcasms is now turning into a gang bashing frenzy. Maybe y'all should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya to make yourselves feel good at the end of the day.

I feel like the humility bar required to instead respond with “My bad, sorry for making light of it” was very low.

And yet there you are.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by D as in David

He's retired! Leave the guy alone. He only funds it now; he doesn't control it. That's a HUGE difference and you'd know that if you weren't one of the sheeple.

Couldn’t Bill just develop a vaccine for bad weather?

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by metroneck

The crazy part is that it was already set up to be the National Guard’s staging and loving cente. The field is covered in cots.

Saw that on the TV last night in a pub so didn’t know which stadium it was.

Doesn’t look good.

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by dino7c

roof was fabric...its not as bad as it seems

BC Place's fabric roof cost a half billion to replace 15 years ago. Tropicana's isn't retractable so it may be quite a bit less expensive to repair -- but it's a garbage stadium and hurricanes are going to get worse down there, so do they dump a couple hundred million into repairs that could be undone in the next five years?

And really, what insurer is going to insure that stadium going forward in the face of worsening storms from climate change?

It's a big deal and going to be a tough decision for the Rays' ownership and governments on what to do.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

I'm just glad it didn't hit as the cat.5 with 15 foot storm surge like they projected 24 hours before.

Small blessings in a terrible situation.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by YyjFlames

BC Place's fabric roof cost a half billion to replace 15 years ago. Tropicana's isn't retractable so it may be quite a bit less expensive to repair -- but it's a garbage stadium and hurricanes are going to get worse down there, so do they dump a couple hundred million into repairs that could be undone in the next five years?

And really, what insurer is going to insure that stadium going forward in the face of worsening storms from climate change?

It's a big deal and going to be a tough decision for the Rays' ownership and governments on what to do.

They already have a deal to build a new stadium, but it will still be three more seasons before it is ready.

I wonder if they could just remove the fabric from the roof and play in it as an open air stadium for the next three seasons?

[mogg]

Hard to believe that was the Lightning’s home for a few years.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by YyjFlames

BC Place's fabric roof cost a half billion to replace 15 years ago. Tropicana's isn't retractable so it may be quite a bit less expensive to repair -- but it's a garbage stadium and hurricanes are going to get worse down there, so do they dump a couple hundred million into repairs that could be undone in the next five years?

And really, what insurer is going to insure that stadium going forward in the face of worsening storms from climate change?

It's a big deal and going to be a tough decision for the Rays' ownership and governments on what to do.

I said it isn't as bad as it seems...a non fabric roof being torn off would be FAR worse

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by getbak

They already have a deal to build a new stadium, but it will still be three more seasons before it is ready.

I wonder if they could just remove the fabric from the roof and play in it as an open air stadium for the next three seasons?

It would be fun watching batters bang it out of the park.

[butterfly]

The catwalks are the unique thing about Tropicana Field. I hope they repair it.

[Icantwhisper]

Originally Posted by YyjFlames

BC Place's fabric roof cost a half billion to replace 15 years ago. Tropicana's isn't retractable so it may be quite a bit less expensive to repair -- but it's a garbage stadium and hurricanes are going to get worse down there, so do they dump a couple hundred million into repairs that could be undone in the next five years?

And really, what insurer is going to insure that stadium going forward in the face of worsening storms from climate change?

It's a big deal and going to be a tough decision for the Rays' ownership and governments on what to do.

The roof in BC was completely redesigned, implying it was simply replaced in kind is wrong. If you are just replacing the fabric and none of the structure I'd be surprised if it was more than $40MM USD

[bdubbs]

Originally Posted by CSharp

@Coach
@EN FUEGO
@bdubbs
@butterfly
@The Yen Man
@Cali Panthers Fan

Jesus, chill out! What was originally an innocent thread with multiple sarcasms is now turning into a gang bashing frenzy. Maybe y'all should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya to make yourselves feel good at the end of the day.

It makes me feel good that you keep drawing attention to how bad you look. Like a person willfully shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly.

[Icantwhisper]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

It makes me feel good that you keep drawing attention to how bad you look. Like a person willfully shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly.

You guys might want to get off your high horses, in his defence the whole thread was started with concern to where the games would be played, with zero mention of the people who live there and the deaths that would occur.
Strangely nobody mentioned this till page 5 of this thread and then the outrage swelled.

[bdubbs]

Originally Posted by Icantwhisper

You guys might want to get off your high horses, in his defence the whole thread was started with concern to where the games would be played, with zero mention of the people who live there and the deaths that would occur.
Strangely nobody mentioned this till page 5 of this thread and then the outrage swelled.

Firstly, I'm comfy up here on my high horse, thank you. Happy to get off when a retraction is made about something concerning people's lives being lost. Or a 'my bad' is enough, too.

Secondly, you don't pay my internet bill nor is calling out someone for a bad opinion against the rules. Just my opinion.

[Icantwhisper]

[QUOTE=bdubbs;9223178]Firstly, I'm comfy up here on my high horse, thank you. Happy to get off when a retraction is made about something concerning people's lives being lost. Or a 'my bad' is enough, too.

Secondly, you don't pay my internet bill nor is calling out someone for a bad opinion against the rules. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE

I 100% agree, but.... your opinion isn't anymore important than another and selective outrage is always entertaining

[bdubbs]

[QUOTE=Icantwhisper;9223262]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

Firstly, I'm comfy up here on my high horse, thank you. Happy to get off when a retraction is made about something concerning people's lives being lost. Or a 'my bad' is enough, too.

Secondly, you don't pay my internet bill nor is calling out someone for a bad opinion against the rules. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE

I 100% agree, but.... your opinion isn't anymore important than another and selective outrage is always entertaining

Poor quoting aside, there were 5 others who had the same opinion, which makes this a high horse party, I think. Or a herd?

[Icantwhisper]

[QUOTE=bdubbs;9224343]

Originally Posted by Icantwhisper

Poor quoting aside, there were 5 others who had the same opinion, which makes this a high horse party, I think. Or a herd?

As the high horses are all feral I believe "Mob" fits best

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by getbak

They already have a deal to build a new stadium, but it will still be three more seasons before it is ready.

I wonder if they could just remove the fabric from the roof and play in it as an open air stadium for the next three seasons?

Drainage will be a major problem. Indoor structures are not designed to divert millions of gallons of water to storm sewers. Assuming it's not like the Big D'oh where it's prestressed concrete next to other structures, demolishing that thing would be the prudent move. Let the Ray's play in someone's spring training facility for 3 years or Oakland.

There's enough other cleanup needed in that area. Putting resources to make the Trop functional doesn't seem like a worthwhile endeavor economically or socially to me.