Falling ice at Cowboys Stadium injures 7, one critically

[rainbow4321]

Source: Dallas Morning News


Seven people were injured, one of them critically, when ice fell from the roof of Cowboys Stadium this afternoon, authorities said.

The accident happened about 1:15 p.m. at the stadium, site of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV.

Five of the seven people injured were taken to area hospitals

Huge sheets of ice and snow atop the stadium could be seen sliding off the dome and crashing down 200 feet to the ground as temperatures warmed and the sun reappeared this afternoon.



Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/arlington/headlines/20110204-falling-ice-at-cowboys-stadium-injures-7-one-critically.ece

[Horse with no Name]

1. Maybe they should have just taken them inside the stadium

At least there they would have been guaranteed electricity...at the hospital, not so much.

In all seriousness though...why can't this freaking football game be postponed?

[BlueJazz]

2. I blame the "Powers that be" at the stadium. I mean, they had snow on a DOME...

..I repeat DOME... and nobody thought...Gee, the curved surface is packed with snow and now it's warming up.

Doesn't take the proverbial rocket scientist to figure that one out.

[Journeyman]

3. In a word: Money. . .

far too much money at stake, far too much money already spent to delay it at all. . .

[TBF]

8. Way too much - not only the game itself, advertising, travel back and forth for

all the players, tax money (the security for the whole thing is managed by Homeland Security).

Not to mention that they've siphoned off our electricity for the week so I'd just as soon they get it over with and get back to normal (and I'm a lifelong Packer fan...)

[rainbow4321]

12. Local SB parties are slashing their admission prices

Because people aren't venturing out.

And Prince's $1,500/ticket concert?? HE didn't show up. His BAND did, but he was a no show. A no show after it was announced today that the show would still be
held.

[glinda]

4. I would avoid the Game personally. Sounds like it could be dangerous.

[DollyM]

5. They need to post hazard signs around the area . . .

Just like the signs that say to be aware of falling rocks, there needs to be signs that warn people are the ice falling. I can't imagine people not realizing that you need to be aware of falling ice (but being from Illinois I may be a little more attuned to that!)but it can be very dangerous and the stadium needs to post signs for those who are not aware of the danger.

[Sonoman]

6. 'It doesn’t have to get below freezing for stuff to start melting,” Mosier said.'

"The temperature around the stadium was 26 degrees by midafternoon, said Matt Mosier, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

But a sunny afternoon could start to thaw the ice, he said.

“It doesn’t have to get below freezing for stuff to start melting,” Mosier said."




Huh?

And this gut gets paid to say shit like that.

Sonoman

[MilesColtrane]

9. Snow absorbs more solar radiation than air.

So yeah, he's right.

[Sonoman]

10. I know that.

But that was some piss-poor sentence structure.

Sonoman

[Thor_MN]

7. In Minnesota, the dome deflates safely, injuring no one....

[underpants]

11. WOW Jerry, not your team and now this - this is turning into a disaster

oh and the Reagasm will mark this forever.