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?
Agreed. Whenever there's serious talk of shutting down the pool, I always half-jokingly offer to sign some kind of liability waiver, but the lifeguard will have none of it. The overall odds of getting struck by lightning are what, like one in 10 million? Unless it's really bad outside, I'll take my chances.
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?
Agreed. Whenever there's serious talk of shutting down the pool, I always half-jokingly offer to sign some kind of liability waiver, but the lifeguard will have none of it. The overall odds of getting struck by lightning are what, like one in 10 million? Unless it's really bad outside, I'll take my chances.
