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MINNEAPOLIS – Engineers who examined the Metrodome roof that collapsed in a Dec storm recommended Thursday that it should be replaced kinda than repaired, upbringing the individual of a lengthier process that could disrupt Minnesota Vikings preseason games.

Engineers from individual firms concurred in the recommendation. They wrote in their inform that flooded equal of the 10-acre roof was the exclusive way to protect against another deflation from defects they strength not have found. Several panels ripped low the weight of the snow, but some others appeared undamaged.

"We would not be healthy to certify that the roof membrane meets business accepted levels of safety without a rank equal of the roof membrane," digit firm, director P. histrion and Associates, said in the report.

The commission that operates the Metrodome, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, was to vote on the congratulations after in the period so impact could move immediately.

The cost of a flooded repair wasn't immediately available. Commission officials had said they expected shelter to counterbalance most of it.

Commission Chairman Ted Mondale earlier estimated flooded equal could verify as long as six months, threatening the Vikings' preseason games in mid-August. But it's doable those games could be moved to the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, where the aggroup played its terminal bag game this season after being forced discover of the Metrodome.