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!
I think this calls for a Mythbusters episode!
-Rick
What a great idea! Why don't you send them an e-mail suggesting it? I am sure that they will figure out some cool way to totally fry some fish, even if they have to add copious quantities of an elecytolyte to the water to make it a better conductor, completely insulate the pool so that the charge can't go directly to ground, and copper-plate the fish to make them better conductors...
I think this calls for a Mythbusters episode!
-Rick
What a great idea! Why don't you send them an e-mail suggesting it? I am sure that they will figure out some cool way to totally fry some fish, even if they have to add copious quantities of an elecytolyte to the water to make it a better conductor, completely insulate the pool so that the charge can't go directly to ground, and copper-plate the fish to make them better conductors...
