12 Comment

• cm=corey February 18, 2011 at 3:54 pm

  Just lovely; one more reason for those who want it torn down, though i suppose Yankee stadium is gone and soon will be the dome. I still remember from the movie 2010, Roy Schneider saying the best hotdog in the world was a dome-dog. The dogs sucked, nachos were the best though, and the astros haven’t played there in almost 11-12 years..
• John February 18, 2011 at 4:01 pm

  No doubt, a fire set by the county commissioners whose willful neglect is the reason why the Dome is in its current state. If only they could have figured out way to skim millions out of it for themselves and their cronies. Too bad Houstonians are too lame to give a damn. Soon to be a city with no visible history, but plenty of, um, freeways, WalMarts, and strip centers. Yee Haw!
• iah/pdx February 18, 2011 at 4:08 pm

  First time I’ve heard about fans at the Astrodome in a long time…
• Heights Weirdo February 18, 2011 at 4:18 pm

  Ha! I vote for comment of the day for iah/pdx.
• movocelot February 18, 2011 at 4:34 pm

  From iah/pdx:
  First time I’ve heard about fans at the Astrodome in a long time…
  .

  Good point that!
  What was going on there?
• Old school February 18, 2011 at 5:03 pm

  I heard that some kid got in the dome and started flying around using an elaborate set of mechanical wings. He kicked off the fire when he hit the lights at the top of the dome, triggering a transformer blow out.
• kjb434 February 20, 2011 at 8:47 am

  Implode the damn thing! The County is losing millions of dollars a year from it just standing there and rehabilitation is a waste at this point. Hell, it was a waste 15 years ago.
• jbprincess February 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm

  If the old Rice Hotel can be brought back to life, so can the Astrodome. I hope something can be done with the dome other than tearing it down.
• Craig February 21, 2011 at 9:32 am

  So this is Ed’s plan? Matches and gasoline?

  Oh well.
• Jack Valinski February 22, 2011 at 8:05 am

  I understand we still owe money in it and it cost something like $4 million a year in upkeep. Yet in it condition it can not be used.
• Bill Burge February 22, 2011 at 11:18 am

  It’s easy for people to say it should be saved, but coming up with a way to make it financially viable is not so easy. Anyone can suggest that we turn it into a shark tank, a hotel or a biodiversity lab, but they can’t show how it will make money or even break even. The process of finding an alternative use for it has gone on long enough. I’m tired of my tax dollars paying for an old building that needs to be removed.
• David Beebe February 22, 2011 at 6:14 pm

  Arson- disguised as an electrical short- now it’s truly “unusable” McNair, Eversole and their buddies can’t wait for more parking next to “Reliant Stadium” How ironic that the Astrodome is now called “Reliant Astrodome” and suffers from an “electrical fire”. Lame.