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It’s 11 p.m. when Mayor Michael Fougere gets a text message.

“Where’s the roof? It’s raining.”

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You’ve probably already guessed, but the message refers to the now three-year-old Mosaic Stadium.

It’s not the first one like it that he’s received — and he knows with certainty it won’t be the last. But Fougere hopes one day people will get the message: The roof is likely never going to happen.

“I hear this every so often in the community, ‘Why don’t we have a roof? You should have finished it off by putting a roof on,’ ” said Fougere.

“You have to live in the realm of possibilities and it just isn’t there.”

Every storm that coincides with an entertainment event in the stadium unleashes a barrage of the same comments.

Yet, no matter how often the explanation is given — the cost to add a roof, let alone maintain it once it was built, would be nearly impossible and highly impractical — people still take to social media to say it should have been built anyway.