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
I wonder if anybody at USMS could intercede on behalf of us Y swimmers? I think it is, indeed, a national policy, but it seems to me a misguided one. I think the harm done by keeping people from a healthy form of physical activity is much greater than some theoretical risk that some misguided Y committee decided to implement to lower insurance or what have you.
I wonder if anybody at USMS could intercede on behalf of us Y swimmers? I think it is, indeed, a national policy, but it seems to me a misguided one. I think the harm done by keeping people from a healthy form of physical activity is much greater than some theoretical risk that some misguided Y committee decided to implement to lower insurance or what have you.
