The field is home to the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team.
Video and photos shared on social media showed that the fabric that serves as the domed building’s roof had been ripped to shreds, which made landfall in Florida Wednesday night, appeared to have ripped the roof off Tropicana Field, home to the baseball team the Tampa Bay Rays.
Milton, which had maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour as it hit Siesta Key Wednesday, also downed power lines and trees, flipped over houses and even lead major construction structures collapsing.In downtown St. Petersburg, approximately 50 miles north of Siesta Key, crane at the site of a 515-foot-tall luxury high-rise building under construction collapsed. The building, which was still being built, was billed as one of the tallest on the west coast of Florida.
This is the construction crane that collapsed and fell into the Tampa Bay Times building. The damage to the building is catastrophic collapsing multiply floors. The water lines broke flooding the building.A crane is blocking the road, and several stories up, smoke billows out of the building from where it appears the crane fellis soldiering on to cover it all - even though the newspaper's building was struck by a collapsing crane, prompting smoke to billow from the structure.
Despite the downgrade, it was no less dangerous, as the National Weather Service issued a rare flash flood emergency statement for the Tampa Bay area.Hurricane Milton, which weakened to a Category 1 storm overnight, will continue to bring “devastating rains and damaging winds” across the central Florida peninsula throughout Thursday before exiting the state late in the day for the Atlantic Ocean, the National Weather Service says."A 1 in 1,000 year rainfall event," Roker said.
The service also said tornadoes were possible through early Thursday morning over parts of central and eastern Florida.Track the hurricane live below as it continues to move across FloridaFourteen Florida counties, were still under mandatory evacuation orders Thursday morning. The evacuation order for Levy County had been lifted.
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