Buccaneers-Chiefs recreation WILL be performed in Tampa after NFL backed off contingency plan to maneuver Week 4 matchup to Minneapolis amid fallout from lethal Hurricane Ian
The NFL goes to take its probabilities with Hurricane Ian by retaining Sunday night time’s Chiefs-Buccaneers recreation at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.
The league beforehand chosen US Financial institution Stadium in Minneapolis as a contingency web site for the sport after the Bucs evacuated Florida‘s Gulf Coast to follow in Miami forward of Sunday’s recreation towards the visiting Chiefs.
‘Our ideas and prayers stay with the numerous hundreds within the Southwest Florida area who’ve been severely impacted by Hurricane Ian,’ the Bucs mentioned in a press release. ‘We’re additionally very grateful that the Tampa Bay space was spared essentially the most damaging penalties of this highly effective storm.
‘We now have knowledgeable the NFL, after consulting with native and state companies, that we’re able to play Sunday night time’s recreation towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Raymond James Stadium as initially scheduled.’
The staff additionally thanked first responders ‘who’re already battling the weather, saving lives, and serving to our neighbors in these most impacted areas to our south.’
The NFL goes to take its probabilities with Hurricane Ian by retaining Sunday night time’s Chiefs-Buccaneers recreation at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium (pictured)
Rescue crews waded via flooded streets and used boats Thursday in a scramble to avoid wasting folks trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed a cross-section of Florida and introduced torrential rains that inundated extra communities.
The destruction started to return into focus a day after Ian made landfall in Florida as one of many strongest hurricanes ever to hit to the US The storm flooded properties on each of the state’s coasts, reduce off the one bridge to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electrical energy to 2.67 million Florida properties and companies. Not less than one man was confirmed lifeless.
‘We have by no means seen storm surge of this magnitude,’ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis informed a information convention. ‘The quantity of water that´s been rising, and can possible proceed to rise at present even because the storm is passing, is principally a 500-year flooding occasion.’
Although downgraded to a tropical storm by Thursday morning, the Nationwide Hurricane Middle mentioned storm surge and flooding rains remained a menace as Ian crept throughout the Florida peninsula and emerged within the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Canaveral. Forecasters predicted a northward flip towards South Carolina, and a hurricane warning was issued for the state´s shoreline.
Sheriffs in southwest Florida mentioned 911 facilities have been inundated by hundreds of stranded callers, some with life-threatening emergencies. The US Coast Guard started rescue efforts round dawn on barrier islands close to the place the Ian struck, DeSantis mentioned. Fireplace departments fanned out in flooded areas as nicely.
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