I'd planned a massive Saturday morning swim today at the Y, but I'm here on the couch blogging because there's a thunderstorm in progress. 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!
This is a subject that makes me almost as crazy as noodlers and 95 degree YMCA pools. I have never understood in my entire life why we have to get out of the pool and huddle on deck. Are you more likely to die in the water versus on deck? Is lightning more likely to strike a pool versus the gigantic trees surrounding the pool?
And, I would think if you are in a lake on a boat the safest place is the water versus the boat, which is an attractive lightning rod.
Obviously if it is a big thunder boomer no one wants to be in the pool or on deck but sometimes lifeguards get a big crazy and clear the pool when it is obvious there is no threat in the least nearby.
This is a subject that makes me almost as crazy as noodlers and 95 degree YMCA pools. I have never understood in my entire life why we have to get out of the pool and huddle on deck. Are you more likely to die in the water versus on deck? Is lightning more likely to strike a pool versus the gigantic trees surrounding the pool?
And, I would think if you are in a lake on a boat the safest place is the water versus the boat, which is an attractive lightning rod.
Obviously if it is a big thunder boomer no one wants to be in the pool or on deck but sometimes lifeguards get a big crazy and clear the pool when it is obvious there is no threat in the least nearby.
