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. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly
About 90 minutes after making landfall Wednesday night, Milton was centered about 20 miles northeast of Sarasota and had weakened to a Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles-per-hour. The weather service said Boca Grande, Florida, could see a surge as high as 13 feet above ground if it hits at the same time as high tide
"Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last for weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months," the description states. to the ranking for storms with winds that exceed 192 miles per hour, though no such category has been officially created so far.
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