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
A lifeguard out our Y thought she heard thunder coming from a huge smoke cloud from a wrecked tanker truck on the highway. I told her it was smoke, but she still closed the pool for 30 minutes.
Our big Y has the golf course lightning system, which measures the electrical charge in the atmosphere. Once it reaches a certain number, the pool closes. I've seen lightning bolts in the area and the Y stayed open with this system. I'm sure it's expensive, but worth it in my opinion.
A lifeguard out our Y thought she heard thunder coming from a huge smoke cloud from a wrecked tanker truck on the highway. I told her it was smoke, but she still closed the pool for 30 minutes.
Our big Y has the golf course lightning system, which measures the electrical charge in the atmosphere. Once it reaches a certain number, the pool closes. I've seen lightning bolts in the area and the Y stayed open with this system. I'm sure it's expensive, but worth it in my opinion.
