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
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Same 30 minute rule at the Ys I've been to in Michigan - I don't know it might be their national policy. Does insurance have anything to do with it?
This is one of the main reasons I finally quit that place (along with noodlers/lane limitations, hot water, and disgusting lockerooms). I look outside today and it's been overcast all day, probably could hear a hint of thunder in the distance if you listened close enough. There wouldn't be any sense going to the Y pool right now.
Same 30 minute rule at the Ys I've been to in Michigan - I don't know it might be their national policy. Does insurance have anything to do with it?
This is one of the main reasons I finally quit that place (along with noodlers/lane limitations, hot water, and disgusting lockerooms). I look outside today and it's been overcast all day, probably could hear a hint of thunder in the distance if you listened close enough. There wouldn't be any sense going to the Y pool right now.
