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http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Pl ... story.html

Who in their ultimate wisdom designed a roof in a rainy city like Vancouver to not be able to close in the rain?? You'd think $500 million would buy you more foresight than that.

All I can say now is - RAINOUT!

how about install a giant umbrella?

it sounds like they didn't have a choice. it had to be done that way.

and rain outs only happen for baseball. they never rain out football (i thought at least).

oh yeah and is it me or were there a few grammatical errors in that article?

i don't think you read the article carefully enough. they can't open or retract it WHEN there are strong winds or heavy rain. but they can do it before said wind and/or rain.

so they have to keep a close eye on the weather and preemptively open/close accordingly. what they're worried about is when there's a flash rain storm or wind storm (which hardly happens in this predictable vancouver weather).

Oh yeah, you're right...
That's still dumb though... not sure why we went with a retractable roof still. Retractable roofs are usually for places where there's more sun than rain. In Vancouver we get like 3 months of sun, and football season is mostly in fall/winter season when there's more rain than anything.

So, ummm.... I guess that means that if they open the roof in November, they won't be able to close it again until... June? That's smrt.

it's a soccer stadium too. soccer season is in the spring or something isn't it?