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HURRICANE MILTON HAS torn the roof off a baseball stadium that was being used as a shelter for emergency workers responding to the storm.
Milton brought misery to a coast still ravaged by Hurricane Helene as it ploughed into Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding cities with winds of over 160 kph after producing a barrage of tornadoes.
It tracked to the south in the final hours and made landfall on Wednesday night in Siesta Key near Sarasota, about 112 kilometres south of Tampa.
While Tampa was spared a direct hit, the situation in the area is still a major emergency, with over 16 inches of rain recorded.
This has prompted the National Weather Service to warn of flash flooding there, as well as other parts of western and central Florida.
Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team in St Petersburg, also appeared to have been badly damaged.
Pieces of the non-retractable roof were ripped to shreds and seen flapping in the fierce winds.
While the fabric on the roof was damaged, the metal frame appeared to be unscathed.
According to WFTS-TV in Tampa, there were no reported injuries at the site.
The stadium was being used as a shelter for first responders in the buildup to the response to the storm.
Yesterday, rows of beds sat atop the stadium’s artificial turf for use by emergency workers.
The stadium was set up to host around 10,000 people, with cots arranged on the playing surface.
Captain Garth Swingle of St. Petersburg Fire Rescue told ABC News there has been contact with the people inside and they are safe.
It wasn’t immediately known if there was damage inside the stadium.
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As long as they don’t go on strike over Xmas I don’t care as I’m flying home with them then. However they have lost me as a customer from now on as I’m sick and tired of strike threats I will fly with Etihad from now on.
Etihad? But Aer Lingus don’t fly to Abu Dhabi?
Code share, look it up, if you fly from the Middle East with Klm you get on Aer Lingus in Amsterdam
Unless of course their on strike
They’re
If DAA go on strike none of the airlines will be going anywhere, at least not from Dublin
The usual pre-christmas strike action threat from the Shamrocks
Belfast
Another possible strike involving Aer Lingus? Do the staff ever work? Give me a job and I will work and I won’t even miss a day to be sick!
The quicker this Aer Lingus crowd are completely privatised the better. Overpaid,underworked, jumped up malingerers. They should all be sent to work for Ryanair for a few months. There wouldn’t be a word out of them when they came back.
It’s the DAA ye should be worried about if this strike goes ahead( which it won’t) Aer Lingus staff can’t shut the airport down…. All the Ryanair, easyjet flights won’t take off either then……
There is no easyjet flights
Rodrigo you’re a d1ckhead
Sounds like your new to town,workers have paid their own money into pensions ,some people which have 30yrs service,they will be lucky to see 20% of that!understand now?
I think we’ve all had quite enough of Trade Unions holding the country to ransom.
Explain.
Oh my goodness……how rare!!!
Can someone please explain to me why in this age of employment law and measures in place to protect employees rights we need unions at all?
Fat cat salaries for the elite union officials sends to be the only reason left.
Can someone please explain to me why in this age of employment law and measures in place to protect employees rights we need unions at all?”
– how about static or declining wages – and conditions- – zero hour contracts.
We have never needed Unions more – pity they became part of the Establishment – at least some did – but that can be changed .
I can’t understand why SIPTU has a problem with the separation of SNN from the DAA. Since the airport has went its own way there has been nothing but good news coming out of there regarding new routes and frequency increases on existing routes. This week alone Aer Lingus Regional announced the reintroduction of the route to Bristol and also the basing of a second aircraft at the airport which may lead to even more routes being introduced. Couple all that with new Ryanair routes and increases to transatlantic things seem to be going in the right direction.
Lockout please but wait until jan :)
Big Jim is turning in his grave at union fatcats who are now self serving as opposed to serving their members.
What the feck do unions know about whats good for a business, they commented on the separation last week…….it happened weeks ago……someone must have disturbed their hibernation…go back to sleep you moron…..
It’s worth remembering when people are condemning ESB workers for defending their pensions that the DAA and Aer Lingus denied any future short fall in the pension fund only a few short years ago. The airports won’t close because SIPTU will not allow it to happen. Unfortunately the employers and the government know this so how effective this ballot will be is questionable.
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