Pool Indoors - Lightning Outdoors

A few years ago the Y started closing the pool (indoors) during lightning. After all these years. All of a sudden. How many of you practice at facilities where the pool closes down in lightning storms? Is there a good reason for this? Have we all been risking our lives for the last 50 years? Just wondering! I swim at a YMCA and they use this rule. I had never heard of it before - but one of our swimmers, who is an electrical engineer, said it was not irrational. At our pool, swimming stops for 30 minutes after hearing thunder or seeing the flash of lightning. At times in practice, I have thought about having a remotely triggered photo flash that I can activate to simulate nearby lightning - when we get one of those sets like 18 x 100s on 1:15. I will admit that there have been times that I was glad to hear a rumble in the middle of workout.

A few years ago the Y started closing the pool (indoors) during lightning. After all these years. All of a sudden. How many of you practice at facilities where the pool closes down in lightning storms? Is there a good reason for this? Have we all been risking our lives for the last 50 years? Just wondering! I swim at a YMCA and they use this rule. I had never heard of it before - but one of our swimmers, who is an electrical engineer, said it was not irrational. At our pool, swimming stops for 30 minutes after hearing thunder or seeing the flash of lightning. At times in practice, I have thought about having a remotely triggered photo flash that I can activate to simulate nearby lightning - when we get one of those sets like 18 x 100s on 1:15. I will admit that there have been times that I was glad to hear a rumble in the middle of workout.