On Wednesday night, the raging winds of Hurricane Milton ripped parts of the fabric of the roof off of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The beams of the roof were still in place.
Roof is gone at Tropicana Field #milton #rays
Video by: Nick Friedman@mysuncoast @WESH pic.twitter.com/VME6Um351J
— Nick Burch (@PageWebber) October 10, 2024
Tropicana field is losing its roof #HurricaneMilton pic.twitter.com/z8F1HeT08f
— Seth Weaver (@seth_weaver6) October 10, 2024
“First responders were staging with cots inside the stadium. There were no reported injuries,” ABC News reported.
Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, just south of Sarasota, at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night with winds at 120 mph; Tampa avoided a direct hit. By 10:30 p.m., winds from the hurricane had reached 91 mph in St. Petersburg, 105 mph at Egmont Channel, and 102 mph at Sarasota–Bradenton…
