Do any of you across this great land swim at a YMCA indoor facility that does NOT automatically close the pool whenever there are thunderstorms in the area?
Two of our three practices this week have been cancelled because of thunderstorms.
On another thread, someone posted how the total number of deaths from indoor pool electrocutions during thunderstorms--in the history of the world--total precisely zero.
I have made this argument endlessly to our Y authorities, all to no avail. Two university pools--Pitt and CMU--do NOT close their indoor pools because of lightning and, in fact, find the concept chortlesome.
If you do swim at a Y pool with a more enlightened policy, can you send word as to how you got your aquatic staff to override the (misguided) national YMCA policy about this?
Signed--
Slowly desiccating in Sewickley, Pa
Our Y will close the pool until they get the all clear, meaning that if there has been no thunder/lightning in the 30 minutes preceding the time that they last hear/see it.
I have never been in the water while this has happened at our local Y. The only time I have had to deal with a storm was one evening when there were storms there was no masters practice (no coaches) but the pool was still open and we were able to swim anyways.
I believe that most pools have some sort of lightning/storm policy.
Our Y will close the pool until they get the all clear, meaning that if there has been no thunder/lightning in the 30 minutes preceding the time that they last hear/see it.
I have never been in the water while this has happened at our local Y. The only time I have had to deal with a storm was one evening when there were storms there was no masters practice (no coaches) but the pool was still open and we were able to swim anyways.
I believe that most pools have some sort of lightning/storm policy.
