As Hurricane Milton passed over Florida as a Category 3 storm, eyewitness videos flooded social media showing the rooftop of the Tampa Bay Rays home stadium shredding in the wind.
By Thursday morning, much of Tropicana Field’s dome roof was gone.
Aerial drone footage revealed wispy white strands hanging off the rooftop’s cable spines. Looking from outside, the Major League Baseball team’s infield was surrounded by hundreds of cots meant for storm responders (they were redeployed to another location before landfall) and large swaths of fabric spread out across stadium seats.
But isn’t there something a little familiar about the stadium’s translucent and fabric-life roof, Denver?
Well, it might be because it’s the same material used for Denver International Airport’s iconic tent rooftop. It’s also used for the white canopy built in 2014 outside of Denver’s Union Station.
The roof of the Tropicana Field is seen damaged the morning after …