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!
Say you're swimming in a lake and lightning actually does strike the lake itself. I wonder how far away from the strike you'd need to be to be safe from electrocution? I really have no idea.
I've been wondering the same thing myself. Lightning was such a rare occurrence when I lived in California, but now that I'm in Arizona, it is quite common.
I did find this on the Internet, but are far as I can tell, no one really knows for sure.
scuba-doc.com/lightdive.htm
Say you're swimming in a lake and lightning actually does strike the lake itself. I wonder how far away from the strike you'd need to be to be safe from electrocution? I really have no idea.
I've been wondering the same thing myself. Lightning was such a rare occurrence when I lived in California, but now that I'm in Arizona, it is quite common.
I did find this on the Internet, but are far as I can tell, no one really knows for sure.
scuba-doc.com/lightdive.htm
