Falling ice injures 5 at Cowboys stadium
A. Isaac This is shaping up to be a Super Bowl to remember. When the NFL chose Dallas as the site, they assumed they would get one of the more exciting venues of the last decade in weather that maybe wasn’t as nice as San Diego or Miami, but certainly not as bad as Detroit’s in 2006.
Turns out, the snow storm of the Detroit Super Bowl is a cupcake compared to the nightmare that’s going on right now in the Big D. Five people were injured when ice fell from Cowboys stadium today.
The critically injured person was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The other four were taken to Arlington Memorial Hospital; they are listed in good condition.
“The ice and snow melting off of the Cowboys Stadium roof has caused several sliding snow falls onto the plazas,” the Dallas Morning News quoted NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy as saying.
“All stadium entrances have been closed except for the truck tunnel, which is away from the building by a very safe distance,” he added.
Weathermen had predicted about 3 inches of snow overnight but instead, some residents woke up to more than half foot of ice-snow wintry mix. The city was obviously completely unprepared for this weather as some have said this is the worst snowstorm they’ve seen in almost two decades.
The good news out of all this? The kids had a light week and probably caught up on all their Super Bowl prop bets. Most of them haven’t been to school since Monday.
Falling ice injures at least five people at Cowboys Stadium [Fox]
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