Minneapolis Metrodome, Metrodome Roof Collapses With Snow: Video

Minneapolis Metrodome, (AP) – The National Football League moved Monday’s game between the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants to Detroit after the roof of the Metrodome Minneapolis collapsed in a snowstorm.

Kickoff at Ford Field will be 7:20 pm Eastern.

League briefly considered moving the game to the University of Minnesota TCF Bank Stadium, but the school said he could not be ready in time.

The roof of the Metrodome Teflon failed on five hours Sunday after a snowstorm dumped more than 17 inches of snow on the region on Saturday.

Metrodome, Facilities Manager Steve Maki (MOCK’-ee) says the team is optimistic the roof can be repaired in time for next Monday’s game against the Chicago Bears.

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Minneapolis News

Minneapolis News, MSP airport [Minneapolis Airport] was closed due to bad weather. Tracks have been hit with so much snow, due to a snowstorm that they could not erase the tracks enough to allow air traffic in or out.

The New York Giants is scheduled to have an away game in Minneapolis against the Vikings this Sunday. However, their flight from New York on Saturday, their flight was diverted to Kansas City.

The last hope is that the game will go ahead on Sunday, but may be delayed for a 1:00 pm kick off at 4:00 pm kick off.

For those who would like more information on scheduled flights that were due in or out of the Minneapolis please visit the following website airports – http://www.mspairport.com/Flight- Information / all-flights.aspx

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Star Tribune, (AP) – The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have declared emergencies in the snow.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports declared a snow emergency at 10:20 on Saturday. This means that drivers can not park on the routes used by the snowplow from 21 am Saturday at 8 pm on Sunday, or until the streets have been plowed curb to curb.

Emergency Snow St. Paul begins at 9 pm on Saturday. That means no parking on streets marked as night plow roads. Parking restrictions on roads marked as the day begins plowing roads at 8 pm on Sunday.

More cities should declare snow emergencies with similar parking restrictions as the storm continues.

Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com

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Metrodome Collapse

Metrodome Collapse, (AP) – A storm that lasted eight States parties continued to dump snow in the Upper Midwest on Sunday, the collapse of Minneapolis and the Metrodome to force the closure of many roads.

The storm was moving east, a day after he dumped 20 inches of snow in some places. A match on Sunday between the NFL football New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings had already been postponed to Monday because the Giants could not get to Minneapolis to play when the tire Metrodome collapsed Sunday. We do not know when this game will now be played.

A blizzard warning was in effect Sunday in Chicago and much of northern Illinois, all of Iowa, much of southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and small areas in North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri and Michigan, according to the National Weather Service. Most of the rest of the region was under a winter storm warning or watch freeze.

Wisconsin officials issued a statewide non-travel advisory on Saturday, quoting blizzard and winter storm warnings in almost all counties.

The weather was an unexpected burden for a Minnesota man who had promised to go camping on the roof of a coffee to help her daughter’s school to raise funds.

General Hospital Robert Stevens donned four layers of long underwear, heavy boots and a down coat before embarking on his quest Friday night. He promised not to descend until it was raised to 100,000, but after reaching the halfway mark on Saturday morning, he said he hoped the rest of the money would come quickly. He did not wait to spend another night in the blizzard.

“I think I crossed the line into madness,” he said.

Stevens slept in a tent among the hay bales, wrapped in a sleeping bag with double insulation listening to the wind whipping off Lake Minnetonka one block.

There was lively lunch crowd Saturday in the Birchwood Cafe in Minneapolis. Dennis Collette, there is a baker, was back inside after she and her colleagues spent 20 minutes of futile attempt to free his car parked in a snowdrift. Dennis still hoped to find a way to return home in the suburb of Roseville, about 12 miles – but it was also prepared to stay put.

The coffee had no beds, Dennis said, “but we have several bags of flour I could not sleep. And I guess at least I will not starve.”