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!
Our team started swimming in the afternoons at a new pool this past Jan. Last night we had our first thunder/lightning storm since we started there. I don't swim in the afternoons so this morning I asked what the guards did and what the team did. They stayed in.
Now the other pool we have that we will be going back to June 1st is a bubbled in pool. In that pool, we do get out and have to go in the girls locker room which is a concrete bunker-like building (it is a former Army post built in the 1940's)
Our team started swimming in the afternoons at a new pool this past Jan. Last night we had our first thunder/lightning storm since we started there. I don't swim in the afternoons so this morning I asked what the guards did and what the team did. They stayed in.
Now the other pool we have that we will be going back to June 1st is a bubbled in pool. In that pool, we do get out and have to go in the girls locker room which is a concrete bunker-like building (it is a former Army post built in the 1940's)
