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Milton shreds roof of Tropicana Subject, dwelling of baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays

Hurricane Milton’s powerful winds overnight Wednesday nearly ripped the entire roof off the Tampa Bay Rays’ home ballpark, Tropicana Field, which had been set for use by workers responding to the storm. Overhead drone, television and still images of the domed stadium in St. Petersburg showed massive swaths of its paneled roof were torn off

Milton shreds roof of Tropicana Subject, dwelling of baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays

Hurricane Milton’s powerful winds overnight Wednesday almost ripped the complete roof off the Tampa Bay Rays’ dwelling ballpark, Tropicana Subject, which had been set to be used by staff responding to the storm.

Overhead drone, tv and nonetheless photos of the domed stadium in St. Petersburg confirmed huge swaths of its paneled roof have been torn off by 100-plus mph winds.

The stadium’s taking part in discipline and stands might be seen within the overheard video by means of areas the place panels as soon as have been. It wasn’t instantly clear whether or not the stadium’s inside suffered any main harm.

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The excessive winds additionally toppled a building crane at 400 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg, about three-quarters of a mile from Tropicana Subject, officials said.

No accidents have been instantly reported in that space of downtown St. Petersburg, town mentioned in an announcement.

As just lately as midday Tuesday, the Florida Division of Emergency Administration mentioned it was “establishing a ten,000-person base camp at Tropicana Subject to help ongoing particles operations and post-landfall responders.”

The roof was designed to soak up winds of as much as 110 mph, Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned. And with forecast gusts topping that customary, staff and gear have been faraway from Tropicana Subject, he mentioned.

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An aerial view of Tropicana Subject’s shredded roof in downtown St. Petersburg, Fla., on Thursday within the wake of Hurricane Milton.Tampa Bay Instances / ZUMA Press by way of Shutterstock

“Because it turned clear that there was going to be one thing of that magnitude that was going to be inside the distance, they redeployed them out of Tropicana,” DeSantis informed reporters Thursday. “There have been no state belongings that have been in Tropicana Subject.” 

The stadium, which opened in 1990, is normally busy with playoff baseball video games in most up-to-date Octobers, however not this yr.

The Rays completed 80-82 this season, their first marketing campaign beneath .500 since 2017. They missed the American League playoffs for the primary time since 2018.

The membership mentioned it is in no hurry to find out the extent of harm to Tropicana Subject.

“Our precedence is supporting our neighborhood and our workers. We’re lucky and grateful that nobody was harm by the harm to our ballpark final evening,” the team said in a statement Thursday afternoon.

“Over the approaching days and weeks, we count on to have the ability to assess the true situation of Tropicana Subject. Within the meantime, we’re working with regulation enforcement to safe the constructing.”

The Rays are scheduled to open the 2025 season at dwelling in opposition to the Colorado Rockies on March 27.

David K. Li

Senior Breaking Information Reporter

John Filippelli

contributed

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