Minnesota Stadium Roof Collapse

Bank stadium in 2016.

Minnesota stadium roof collapse.

Metrodome roof collapses cameras capture the metrodome roof caving in from too much snow during a blizzard in minneapolis minn. Fox news minneapolis the minnesota vikings and new york giants will play on monday night in detroit after the metrodome s inflated roof collapsed in a snowstorm. After nearly a foot and a half of snow accumulated on top of the home of the nfl s minnesota vikings the roof caved in. That is until 2010.

The metrodome s fiberglass roof infamously caved under the heft of deep snow in december 2010. One thing the new roof won t do according to everyone. The stadium had grown old by that year. The teflon and fiberglass roof collapsing makes a ripping noise as air shoots into the stadium sending the roof plummeting toward the stadium seats.

The metrodome s roof went more than 20 years after without any issues. The roof which was made of fiberglass and fabric was supported by air pressure. That roof was held up mostly by air. The metrodome s roof collapsed four times in the 1980s.

On december 12 2010 the much maligned metrodome finally gave out. According to the christian science monitor the first collapse came in 1981 due to heavy snow. It collapsed four times in the 1980s and had to be re inflated despite being built in the same decade. On january 18 2014 the metrodome roof was deflated signaling the beginning of demolition work.

Everything was going as normal during the construction for the stadium expansion under a worker noticed a buckle in a key part of the support structure. Frigid air whipped through a desolate metrodome on monday as crews began inspecting the minnesota stadium s nearly three decades old roof after it collapsed under the weight of heavy snow that.