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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I remember a local USA-S outdoor swim meet in progress when a t-storm arrived. It was iffy most of the day; but halfway through a heat of the 200 IM the front blew in. Winds were gusting over 60mph, it started pouring rain, lots of lightning and thunder.
One of the fastest girls in the heat kept going after the other girls stopped. So an official stuck a big long metal pole in her lane to let her know the meet was stopped due to lightning... ?!
The school pool in my area and our club's policy is to not swim during t-storms. However, the private health club I belong to doesn't care as long as we keep up on our payments.
I remember a local USA-S outdoor swim meet in progress when a t-storm arrived. It was iffy most of the day; but halfway through a heat of the 200 IM the front blew in. Winds were gusting over 60mph, it started pouring rain, lots of lightning and thunder.
One of the fastest girls in the heat kept going after the other girls stopped. So an official stuck a big long metal pole in her lane to let her know the meet was stopped due to lightning... ?!
The school pool in my area and our club's policy is to not swim during t-storms. However, the private health club I belong to doesn't care as long as we keep up on our payments.
