BC Place Stadium new roof can't retract

[geForce]

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!

[Wetundies]

how about install a giant umbrella?

[nature boy]

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).

[nature boy]

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

[geForce]

[nature boy]

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).

[geForce]

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.

[se7entse7en]

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.

[nature boy]

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